Social Justice Teacher Unionism in a Canadian Context: Linking Local and Global efforts
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Neoliberal restructuring of education is a global phenomenon that has been actively resisted by a number of K-12 teachers' unions acting at the state and global level. These efforts have been well documented by union activists within each organization, but the accounts have been descriptive rather than analytic in nature and have masked internal, micro-political struggles for democracy, social justice, and equity faced by teacher unionists struggling to democratize their own federations. This paper uses a micro-political perspective to analyze the career histories of 25 activists affiliated with a Canadian provincial teachers' federation that self identifies as a social justice union. By analyzing moments of conflict and collaboration between groups of activists who compete for resources but are not necessarily at cross purposes, this paper contributes to the efforts of those hoping to increase the durability of social justice teacher union activism at a local, organizational, and global level.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it