Gender, Experience, and Knowledge in Adult Learning: Alisoun's Daughters, Elana Michelson : book review
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This book by Elana Michelson is much more than a study of gender, experience and knowledge in adult learning! It is a tour de force weaving together ideas and concepts from, in the author's own words, 'the scholarship of multiple fields - from literary theory to critical anthropology to the history of seventeenth-century science ... (pp. 11-12). Indeed, in pursuit of social justice in education and beyond, the philosophical and theoretical reaches of the book embrace feminist theory, the politics of knowledge, post-colonialist and critical race theory, socio-materialism, post-structuralism, queer theory and more. Drawing upon and extending Michelson's work over the past 20 or so years, this volume crystallises in very precise yet complex ways the author's longstanding commitment to the deconstruction and critique of contemporary discourses and 'troubling assumptions' of 'experiential learning' and the 'experiential learner', which, she argues, frequently re-inscribe unexamined ideological, philosophical and epistemological principles, appearing more 'progressive' than they actually are.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 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".