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Aboriginal Women and Education: Overcoming a Legacy of Abuse

2007· article· en· W211765653 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Lorraine Mayer

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian journal of native studies · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIndigenous Health, Education, and Rights
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCurriculumRepresentation (politics)SociologyPolitical sciencePerceptionEthnologyHumanitiesPedagogyPsychologyLawArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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Abstract / Resume This paper is concerned with why there is such low representation of Aboriginal people in Universities? While there are many possible answers ranging from lower socio-economic opportunities to a deficiency in culturally appropriate curriculum, all of which are extremely relevant to understanding the position of Aboriginal people in Canada, this paper addresses how abuse in human relationships impacts our perceptions of ourselves and how the subsequent perceptions affect representation in Universities. Of key concern in this paper is whether formal education can harness a legacy of abuse or simply exacerbate it. L'article traite de la question de la grande sous-representation des Autochtones dans les universites. Bien que de nombreuses reponses soient possibles, qui vont du petit nombre de possibilites socioeconomiques a des lacunes en matiere de programmes d'etudes adaptes a la culture autochtone et qui sont toutes tres pertinentes a une comprehension de la situation des Autochtones au Canada, l'article veut expliquer comment la violence dans les relations humaines a des incidences sur notre perception de soi et comment cette perception touche la representation des Autochtones dans les universites. L'article examine particulierement si l'education institutionnelle peut transformer positivement les sequelles des abus ou simplement les exacerber. Why is there such low representation of Aboriginal people in universities? There are many possible answers ranging from lower socio-economic opportunities to a deficiency in culturally appropriate curriculum, all of which are extremely relevant to understanding the position of Aboriginal people in Canada. I am particularly interested however; in how abuse in human relationships impacts our perceptions or more specifically, the effect abuse has had on Aboriginal people's perceptions of themselves and whether education can harness a legacy of abuse? A few questions to consider are: can we explain the tragic mystery that holds an abused woman captive to her past? Can we teach her that she is far more than the sum total of oppression? How does one take a woman who cannot speak in the moment because she needs time to pull herself out of the quagmire of second-guessing that has become her constant companion to the point of self-validation and vocal articulation? Can education free her from the ghosts that haunt her moment by moment as she struggles to make sense of the world? Can education help an abused woman overcome the terror of the simple question: so, what are you thinking? Normally when addressing the effects of abuse scholars tend to focus on women with little education and few economic opportunities. These problems however do not belong solely in the domain of the uneducated. Even the most educated Aboriginal women with every economic opportunity available to her can suffer a legacy of abuse. A legacy that creates a deep sense of self-loathing and failure. Take the following scenario for example: I rub my weary eyes and push my chair away from the computer as your face comes into my view. Brown skin, haunted eyes and hungry, tell a tale no words can adequately describe and I wonder why I am writing this paper. It is so easy for scholarly works to define, describe, and prescribe solutions to the Aboriginal woman's life, but how many actually see the woman? I look again at the words upon the screen and wonder at my own temerity, thinking I have something to say when I know my cousins are struggling to feed their children and I can eat whatever I desire. Here lies part of the problem. It is within my own internal questioning as I stumble through artificiality, wearing the right clothes, doing the right things, saying the right words, all the while denying myself the freedom of truth. I cannot put vocality to my thoughts without dread. Indeed I often run from my thoughts in terror, fearing someone might guess what I'm really thinking. …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.840
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.021
GPT teacher head0.363
Teacher spread0.342 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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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Published2007
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