INSIGHTS FROM THE LIFE HISTORY OF A SECOND CAREER MALE GRADE ONE TEACHER
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT. Among the men and women who enter faculties of education each year are a significant number who have chosen teaching as a second career. As well, a small number of the men entering those faculties will make the unusual and sometimes difficult choice to teach primary grades. This examination of one male, second career teacher's life story is in the tradition of a literature that uses life histories to better understand the personal, social, and historical pressures that shape teachers' lives and work. The findings emphasize the complexity that characterizes teachers' lives, and support and extend earlier research on second career teachers, the 'stages' of professional development experienced by teachers, and gender issues conceming men in elementary education. APERÇU DE L'HISTOIRE DE VIE D'UN ENSEIGNANT DE PREMIÈRE ANNÉE EN SECONDE CARRIÈRE RÉSUMÉ. Pour un nombre considérable d'hommes et de femmes qui s'inscrivent dans les facultés de sciences de l'éducation chaque année, l'enseignement est une seconde carrière. Parmi eux, quelques hommes font un choix de carrière inhabituel et parfois difficile en optant pour l'enseignement primaire. Cette étude, consacrée à un enseignant au seuil d'une seconde carrière, s'inscrit dans la lignée des publications qui cherchent à mieux comprendre les facteurs personnels, sociaux et historiques influençant le vécu et le travail des enseignants à partir de leurs histoires de vie. Les résultats mettent en lumière la complexité caractéristique de la vie des enseignants et corrobore les recherches antérieures sur les enseignants en seconde carrière, leurs expériences de stages en cours de perfectionnement professionnel et la situation spécifique des enseignants de sexe masculin au primaire.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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.
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".