3 Toronto Counsellors and International Institute Social Work Theory and Practice
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Abstract
Two of the women hired by the International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto to staff its Department of Individual Services were Margarete Streeruwitz, a political refugee from Communist Czechoslovakia who arrived in Toronto in the early 1950s, and Effie Tsatsos, a Greek schoolteacher who immigrated to Canada towards the end of the decade.Hired to carry out the Institute's pluralist-integration mandate by providing counselling and casework services meant to ensure individual and family adjustment, neither Streeruwitz nor Tsatsos was a professional social worker.(The job description called for a bachelor of social work degree or equivalent.)A one-time client of the Institute precursor, the New Canadians Service Association (NCSA), Streeruwitz evidently had some practical experience, however.Like other Europeans hired at the Institute in the 1950s, she may have worked for one of the many social welfare organizations serving refugees in Europe after the war.Before moving to Toronto, Tsatsos spent her first year in Canada employed as a dishwasher in a Vancouver restaurant owned by the relatives who had sponsored her.In Toronto, before joining the Institute, she taught Greek-language classes to (presumably tourism-bound) Canadians and, having learned English in Canada, English classes to Greek women looking for work.In keeping with the Institute's strategy to recruit educated and bilingual or multilingual staff from the communities being served, director Nell West and colleagues considered Tsatsos' teaching background sufficient qualification for the job.As Institute recruits who trained on the job while carrying heavy caseloads, Streeruwitz and Tsatsos were expected to apply the casework method central to social work practice with the sensitivity and insight required by the socialcultural perspectives adopted by the affiliates of the American international institute movement.Besides West, there were a few, mostly male, professional social workers who initially carried out the training.As front-line workers who were themselves refugees and immigrants adjusting to life in
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.121 | 0.015 |
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".