A Sense of Themselves: Leadership, Communicative Learning, and Government Policy in the Service of Community Renewal
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Abstract
This paper is about communication for community renewal—its scope and content, the manner in which it takes place, the role of leaders as catalysts for dialogue, and the effect of government intervention on its efficacy. Two case studies, separated by time and location, provide empirical contexts in which the author links assumptions and practices of Canada's rural past to contemporary problems experienced in coastal communities. An experiment in emancipatory rural development at midcentury, supported by adult educators employed by the provincial government of Nova Scotia, offers to present day communities-in-crisis lessons in school and community solidarity, gender representation, and communication that includes artistic as well as discursive forms of expression. Résumé Cet article traite du dialogue pour le renouveau communautaire, de son étendue et de son contenu, de la manière par laquelle il est engagé, du rôle des dirigeants comme catalyseurs de ce dialogue et de l'influence qu'exerce l'intervention gouvernementale sur son efficacité. Deux études de cas, menées en des temps et des lieux différents, fournissent des contextes empiriques qui permettent aux auteurs defaire le lien entre les croyances et les pratiques du Canada rural d'antan et les problèmes que connaissent les collectivités côtières d'aujourd'hui. Une expérience de développement rural émancipateur, menée au milieu du siècle [dernier] et dirigée par des formateurs d'adultes au service du gouvernement provincial de la Nouvelle-Écosse, offre aux collectivités en crise d'aujourd'hui des leçons sur le plan de la solidarité scolaire et communautaire, de la représentation des sexes et de la communication sous des formes d'expression liées à l'art aussi bien qu'au discours.
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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 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.043 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".