MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W2062934603 · doi:10.3102/00028312037001093

The Construction of Teachers' Paradoxical Interests by Teacher Union Leaders

2000· article· en· W2062934603 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Educational Research Journal · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLabor Movements and Unions
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsConstruct (python library)DialecticGovernment (linguistics)SociologyPublic relationsWelfareEconomic JusticePolitical scienceLawEpistemology

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

In this case study, the author examines (1) bow leaders construct the relationship between teachers' self-interests and teachers' broader educational interests and (2) the internal and external factors that influence how teacher union leaders pursue union interests. Union leaders, construct variable paradoxical relationships between teachers' self-interests and broader educational interests. The various perspectives are examined using Ford and Backoff's framework of paradox construction (Ford, J., & Backoff, R. (1998). Paradox and transformation: Toward a theory of change in organization and management ) Findings indicate that most union leaders.focus on a dialectic relationship between economic welfare and professional development, which they believe leads to education quality. Long-term, moral purposes related to quality education and social justice encourage the union to transcend a dialectic construction of the paradox. The realities of internal and external pressures lead to dynamic shifts in emphasis between basic, short-term interests and long-term, higher order interests, and make it difficult for the union to permanently transcend current constructions of the paradox. Threats from the provincial government during the. 1990s caused the union to focus" on basic, short-term self-interests.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.665
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.055
GPT teacher head0.443
Teacher spread0.388 · 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