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Geography Taught as if It Matters

2019· article· en· W2990387980 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Stephen J. Thornton

Bibliographic record

VenueEncounters in Theory and History of Education · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeography Education and Pedagogy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPerspective (graphical)Subject (documents)Subject matterCitizenshipSociologyGeographyEnvironmental ethicsPedagogyPolitical scienceCurriculumLibrary scienceComputer sciencePhilosophy

Abstract

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Nel Noddings (2013, 2015) argues there is no school subject more crucial than geography for making “better adults” who will serve as caring and responsible stewards of planet Earth. This perspective assigns geography a far greater role in school (and college) programs than in many places today. In this essay, I elaborate what such a perspective could mean. Specifically, I explore how relationships—both among humans and in subject matter—enable a geographic education that reaches young people. As touchstones for discussion, I draw on two propositions Noddings repeatedly advances: (1) geography considered as a study of the earth as the “home” of humans and other living things provides a sound basis for the selection of topics for study, and (2) children’s interests “employed wisely will lead to knowledge and attitudes that are adequate for personal fulfillment and for citizenship” (Noddings, 2012, p. 194).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.062

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.029
Scholarly communication0.0100.013
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0040.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.003

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.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.303
Teacher spread0.294 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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".

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