Bibliographic record
Abstract
The body of writing on global citizenship education (GCE) has grown considerably over the last decade or so.However, many researching the topic would agree that the field is in need of critical scholarship that engages theoretically with its complex and contested nature.The recent book Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education (2012), edited by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti and Lynn Mario T. M. de Souza, makes an important and long-overdue contribution to the small, but emerging body of literature that critiques existing under-theorized notions of global citizenship education and provides ideas for how we might rethink pedagogical work in this field.Readers of the Canadian and International Education journal will be interested in this collection not only because it is timely, related to issues and topics explored previously in this journal, but also that almost half of the authors are past or present members of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada.In this way, the book is an acknowledgement of the contributions of many Canadians to the emerging body of critical theoretical literature on GCE.The book is divided into 3 sections.In the first, the authors engage in theoretical analyses of GCE and the benefits and limitations of using postcolonial theory as a tool of analysis.The second section consists of chapters that critique GCE initiatives, including Western development work, study abroad, international education, and the 'Make Poverty History' campaign.In the final section of the book, the authors turn their attention to re-conceptualizing global citizenship education "otherwise", providing examples of what a reconstructed GCE based on principles of reflexivity, mutual learning, and openness in our encounters with the 'Other' might look like.In the first part of the book, the authors engage explicitly with postcolonial theory as an alternative framework to theorize global citizenship education in light of the spread of neo-liberal economic reforms.Some of the authors draw explicitly on classical post-colonial theorists such as Fanon, Memmi, and Said.Others cast their post-positivist net more widely and engage with socio-cultural theorists such as Appiah, Appuradai, Bhabha, Spivak, and Žižek.A couple of authors even attempt to bring together post-colonial theorizing with critical pedagogy as Stevenson does in his rereading of Frantz
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.055 | 0.018 |
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".