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Record W2046849053 · doi:10.3138/ctr.147.43

Making it Up as We Go Along: Improvisation and Environmental Education

2011· article· en· W2046849053 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Julia Lane

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Theatre Review · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicOutdoor and Experiential Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsImprovisationAestheticsPerspective (graphical)John CageSociologyIndeterminacy (philosophy)ArtVisual artsPerformance artEpistemologyPhilosophyArt history

Abstract

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Improvisation is often associated with shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway?, where the goal is to make the audience laugh. This paper expands the concept of theatrical improvisation in line with naturalist Gary Paul Nabhan's understanding of life on earth as “the Great Improvisation” (9-10). Such a perspective sheds light on the benefits of pairing exercises derived from theatrical improvisation with environmental education (EE). Nabhan's epithet draws attention to the indeterminacy, the interconnection and the complexity shared by ecosystems and improv. troupes. This paper discusses the ways in which theatrical improvisation can encourage cooperation, collaborative learning, commitment to the moment and enjoyment in environmental education.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.126
Threshold uncertainty score0.250

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.012
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.047
GPT teacher head0.335
Teacher spread0.288 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2011
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