Walking The Land: Inculturation And Footprints in the Western Desert of Australia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Father Carl Starkloffbegan teaching at Regis College in the Toronto School of Theology in 1981. He arrived with experience in teaching, as associate professor at Rockhurst College in Kansas City, and in cross-cultural ministry, having served in Wyoming at the Wind River Reservation and St Stephen's Mission, where he was Director from 1975-1981. These twin foci of academic work and hands-on experience continued during his time at Regis. Once each month, he would set out on the long drive to the Anishinabe Spiritual Centre in northern Ontario to spend the weekend with Native peoples who wished to engage in ongoing reflection on Gospel-Culture issues. During this time, he continued to build up an impressive bibliography of academic writings on issues of inculturation and missiology.l This dual concern for theory and praxis is captured in the title of a course he taught for many years, "Inculturation: Theory and Practice." Not, for him, a theoretical formulation with no bearing on actual cross-cultural experience. Nor, at the other extreme, was he interested in a praxis which failed to be critically reflective. Rather, Starkloff sensed that discussion of inculturation can too easily get caught up in motherhood statements with which no one could disagree but which say very little, and that the real questions arose when people sought to do inculturation. Thus, while he certainly brought to cross-cultural experience a wealth of theological knowledge and astute critical skill, he aimed to give flesh to theoretical reflections on inculturation by grounding them in experience-his own, that of the Native peoples with whom he maintained regular contact, and that of culturally-diverse groups of students.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".