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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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it