Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT. This article links my personal experience as a First Nations doctoral student to Paulo Freire's teachings on oppression. The spirit of his writing has inspired me to work toward transformational change. I also draw on other discussions of colonialism including the writings of Edward Said. I explore, in the Canadian context, what I refer to as the mind. The colonial mind is exhibited in relationships and produces polarized behaviours that result from superior - inferior stances. Oppressive attitudes and actions are often unconscious, unintentional, and trans-generational. The First Nations student must identify oppression within academic institutions and the cultural oppression that exists in both general society and academic institutions. Both forms of oppression, institutional and cultural, exhibit similar features and grow from the same root of superior - inferior dynamics. Freedom from oppression, both cultural and institutional, requires the individual to (a) identify the beliefs that support oppressor/oppressed dynamics; (b) identify the actions and attitudes that perpetuate oppression and; (c) exert the will to change personal behaviours in relationships with others. The perspective in this manuscript does not represent a voice for all First Nations people; rather, this is a personal perspective based on my experience as both a student and a teacher. L'ESPRIT COLONIAL DANS L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR RESUME. Cet article etablit un lien entre mon experience personnelle d'etudiante autochtone de doctorat et les enseignements de Paulo Freire sur l'oppression. L'esprit de son ouvrage m'a incitee a vouloir des changements en profondeur. Je m'inspire egalement d'autres analyses du colonialisme, notamment des ecrits d'Edward Said. Dans le contexte canadien, j'etudie ce que j'appelle « l'esprit colonial ». L'esprit colonial se manifeste dans les rapports humains et aboutit a des comportements polarises decoulant de positions de superiorite-inferiorite. Les actes d'oppression sont souvent inconscients, involontaires et se transmettent de generation en generation. L'etudiant autochtone doit cerner l'oppression au sein du milieu universitaire et l'oppression culturelle qui existe a la fois dans la societe en general et dans le milieu universitaire. Les deux formes d'oppression, institutionnelle et culturelle, presentent des caracteristiques analogues et decoulent de la meme dynamique superiorite-inferiorite. Pour se liberer de l'oppression, aussi bien culturelle qu'institutionnelle, l'individu doit a) preciser les croyances qui favorisent la dynamique oppresseur-oprime; b) cerner les actes et les attitudes qui perpetuent l'oppression; et c) etre anime du desir de modifier des comportements personnels par rapport aux autres.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.034 | 0.037 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".