Little Mosie From the Margaree: A Biography of Michael Moses Coady. Michael R. Welton (2001). Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing.
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Abstract
People in rural Maritime Canada learned how to organize institutions such as credit unions and co-operatives through a programme of group self-study, organized by the extension department of St. Francis Xavier University.These institutions contributed to improving the material circumstances of their lives.Reverend Moses Michael Coady from the Margaree Valley in Cape Breton, along with a team of extension workers, led this movement for peoples' education from its inception in the 1920s through its peak in the late 1930s and its decline starting in the late 1940s.Coady and the Antigonish Movement have inspired adult educators across North America and have been instrumental in the development of a global co-operative movement.Michael Welton draws upon previously un-utilized sources to give a detailed account of the life of Moses Coady and to develop a critical analysis of Coady's role in shaping the Antigonish Movement.He uses unpublished chapters of the original manuscript copy of Coady's book Masters of their Own Destiny (published in 1939) along with extensive notes that Coady made in preparing an autobiographical work that remained unfinished.Using these and other archival documents and published texts he tries to explicate the myths that make up Coady, and the personal assumptions that underlie his values and his actions in shaping the Antigonish Movement.He tries to develop a deeper understanding of Coady as a person, but it is a risky venture to attempt to give personality to Coady strictly through archival documents.For example, Welton uses letters between Coady and his nephew Leo to explicate some of the contradictions and complexities of Coady's life.These letters indicate that Coady's family-either the late Leo Coady's wife Mary or their children-are important sources of information on his life.Yet there is a striking absence of references to interviews or direct communication with any of them.Further, because so much of Welton's research draws from documents related to the Antigonish Movement, he tends to push to the periphery the work of others who were part of the movement, including the women who worked at St. FX extension.Just as he collapses the Antigonish Movement into Coady's life, he also makes it appear that Coady's life was only about the Antigonish Movement.However, Welton does present a cogent analysis of Coady's life and the context that shaped his values and ideas.He provides an important description of the state of economic decline that was underway in Maritime Canada during Coady's early life (p.54).He also beautifully describes how Coady saw a vision of how the world should be in the subsistence practices of farming, fishing, and working in the woods, by which many people in rural Cape Breton made their livings (p.25).
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.023 | 0.005 |
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