Educating from Difference: Black Cultural Art Educators' Perspectives with Culturally Responsive Teaching
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The 2009 Ontario Ministry of Education's Equity Action plan called for school boards to implement culturally relevant teaching in their strategic plans.As senior administration and educators work towards inclusive classrooms, a perspective that remains absent is that of the arts educator and their relationship to culturally responsive pedagogy.This qualitative study uses Critical Race Theory to examine the work and experiencesincluding the successes and challenges-of Cultural Art Educators using African diasporic artforms.The narratives from semi-structured interviews with eight Black Canadian artists, uncover that while successes occur, cultural art educators navigate the politics of institutional unpreparedness, Anti-Black racism, delegitimization of their cultural artistry and cultural appropriation.Institutional recommendations are made to understand the artists' role, improve the working relationship and recognize Black art content supporting a Canadian education mandate.This is a valuable contribution to the topic of cultural relevance that counters the historical exclusion of race-based data of artists involved in education.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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 teacher head, 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".