Stories Alberta Social Studies Teachers Tell: Influences of Christianity, Liberalism, and Secularism
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Abstract
This article examines how cultural and historical narratives influence the stories Alberta teachers tell about religion in their secondary social studies classrooms. The stories reveal the degree to which teachers are both thoughtful practitioners and shaped by their society. Study participants reflected this tension as the majority took religion seriously in all its complexity but also inadvertently re-inscribed secular liberal assumptions about religion that ultimately narrowed the stories. Particular attention is paid to teachers’ definitions of religion, including its relationship with conflict, and the connections among religion, citizenship, and multiculturalism. Definitions are crucial, and when unexamined, they impact the stories teachers tell. Keywords: Religion, Secularism, Citizenship, Liberalism, Religion Education Cet article examine l’influence des récits culturels et historiques sur les histoires que racontent les enseignants albertains sur la religion dans leurs classes d'études sociales secondaires. Ces récits révèlent à quel point les enseignants sont à la fois des praticiens réfléchis et façonnés par leur société. Les participants à l'étude reflètent cette tension, car la majorité d'entre eux prennent la religion au sérieux dans toute sa complexité, mais réinscrivent aussi par inadvertance des hypothèses libérales séculaires sur la religion qui finissent par restreindre les récits. Nous accordons une attention particulière aux définitions de la religion par les enseignants, y compris sa relation avec les conflits, et aux liens entre religion, citoyenneté et multiculturalisme. Les définitions sont cruciales, et lorsqu'elles ne sont pas examinées, elles ont un impact sur les histoires que racontent les enseignants. Mots clés : religion, laïcité, citoyenneté, libéralisme, éducation religieuse
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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 | 0.003 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".