Organizing for Social Policy Change: Child Care Policy Advocacy in Canada
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Abstract
This thesis applies a feminist political economy framework to the child care policy advocacy movement in Canada.Taking up the campaigns for a federal child care program as an example of social movement advocacy for policy creation and change, this thesis examines how social actors have understood the need for social policy change at the federal level in Canada.I develop a policy history in conjunction with an advocacy history to preface a theorization of child care advocacy according to Tronto's (2011) four phases of care.I develop a method of inquiry that is grounded in the voices of the advocacy movement; I rely on interviews conducted with advocates, researchers, representatives of advocacy organizations, and a Member of Parliament who are organizing to achieve a national child care system which is grounded in the QUAD principles: quality, universality, accessibility, and developmentally appropriate child care available to all children whenever and wherever it is required.This project contributes to an emerging body of literature which seeks to understand the history, approaches, and goals of the child care movement as a 'usable past' which can both strengthen the cognitive praxis of the movement and inform its pursuit of social policy change.This thesis is dedicated to the incredible, unwavering advocates who participated in and informed my study.Thank you for your commitment, your vision of the future of child care in Canada, and your determined belief that a different future is possible.I hope this work is useful to you.I would like to thank my amazing supervisor, Dr. Susan Braedley, for her contributions of time and patience, her wealth of knowledge, accommodating the surely inconvenient Skype meetings, and the early question that has shaped my research and kept me on track since the beginning: "What are you pissed about?"Sincere thanks go to my second reader, Dr. Rebecca Schein for her insights regarding social movements and feminist theory, and her willingness to work with a student
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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 | 0.008 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.057 | 0.030 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".