The Shaping Influences of 'A Capable Person:' A Narrative Research of Elders' Stories of Raising Children to Inform Aboriginal Education in the Northwest Territories
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Abstract
Storytelling, oral traditions, land-based legends, and ancient cultural and spiritual teachings enliven the narratives of many Northwest Territories (NWT) Aboriginal Elders, revealing northern story lights for those who choose to experience them, learn and make meaning from them.I chose to follow twelve NWT Elders' story lights, and took a twoyear journey with them to learn about the phenomenon of 'a capable person' from their Indigenous perspective.Through a narrative research approach, I articulated my purpose to identify and examine the influences that guide the growth and development of 'a capable person.'By drawing from NWT Elders' personal life-experience narratives of raising children and relationality, four shaping influences emerged that allowed me to develop a re-interpreted lens from which to view contemporary Indigenous pedagogy and practices in order to inform Aboriginal education in the NWT.Through reflective analysis and research ceremony, my conceptual framework arose, revealing the processes of raising children as similar to raising an Indigenous tipi.The four structures of the tipi made up the framework that sought to bring meaning to the overall shaping influences that guide the growth and development of 'a capable person' as: 1) the Circle showing the grounding influences; 2) the Triangle (or tripod) raising the relational influences; 3) the Spirals revealing the recurring influences; and 4) the "Canvas" illustrating the outside influences.Findings from this study were based on the narrative accounts of the NWT Aboriginal Elders, which were presented in two parts: through a story-based approach of restorying with Elders' biographies and photographs, and through thematic development.By interweaving the Elders' stories with my own experiences as an Aboriginal educator and leader, and through the emergent story themes, this study shows that by paying attention to the grounding, relational, recurring and outside influences of 'a capable person,' the shaping influences can lead to a new approach to pedagogy and practice needed to create the conditions for transformation in this new century of Indigenizing education in the NWT.
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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 | 0.009 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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