Privileging Heteronormativity in Alberta’s Comprehensive Health and Sanctioned Religious Curriculum: A Critical Discourse Analysis
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Abstract
Although recently the Alberta Government has made many efforts and initiatives to promote support for gender and sexual minority students in schools, ongoing disparities exist between the aspirations for safe and inclusive school environments and the hostile reality of life in schools for this population. This article summarizes the results of a critical analysis of provincial core health literacy curricula along with school-sanctioned religious curricula. The article then highlights probable reasons for the ongoing lack of education and support for gender and sexual diversity in schools and suggests possible contributors to the oppressive environment for these students in rural Southern Alberta. Alors que le gouvernement albertain a récemment déployé beaucoup d’efforts et créé plusieurs initiatives pour appuyer les élèves ayant une orientation ou une identité sexuelle minoritaires dans les écoles, des disparités perdurent entre les aspirations visant des milieux scolaires sécuritaires et inclusifs et la réalité hostile que vit cette population dans les écoles. Cet article résume les résultats d’une analyse critique des programmes d’enseignement sur la santé et des programmes d’études religieuses approuvés par les écoles. Par la suite, l’article souligne les raisons qui pourraient expliquer le manque constant d’éducation et d’appui pour la diversité sexuelle et de genre dans les écoles, et propose des facteurs pouvant contribuer à l’environnement oppressant qui existe pour ces élèves dans le sud de l’Alberta. Mots clés : éducation sexuelle; diversité sexuelle et de genre; religion; éducation à la justice sociale
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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 | 0.012 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.039 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".