Storying and Re-storying Indigenous Content, Perspectives, and Histories in an Elementary Arts Based Curricular Experience
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Abstract
As part of a larger study focusing on the interdependence of creative and critical curricula, this research examines how an arts experience in an elementary school was re-storied, with the guidance of local and place-based First Nation community members, as an exploration of decolonizing curriculum. A school-based musical theatre experience titled Re-Storying Canadian History, which intended to address concerns about Canada’s 150th anniversary, served as a critical and creative medium for increasing awareness of the existing plurality of First Nation identities, cultures, and languages. Framed as a case study, the experiential narratives of elementary school students and their educators provided a space, a time, and a place to initiate and to discuss decolonization processes in elementary school curricula. Three interpretive devices, storying and re-storying, broadening, and burrowing engaged educators and their students in reconnecting teaching and learning with Indigenous content, perspectives, and histories. Key words: Storying and Re-Storying, Decolonization, Arts Based Research, Creative and Critical Curriculum, Truth and Reconciliation Commission S'insérant dans le cadre d’une plus grande étude portant sur l’interdépendance de la criticalité et de la créativité des programmes d’études, cette recherche examine la réitération d’une expérience artistique dans une école élémentaire sous la direction de membres de la communauté locale des Premières Nations comme une étude de la décolonisation du curriculum. L’école a présenté une production de théâtre musical intitulée Re-Storying Canadian History (Reprise de l’histoire du Canada) dont le but était d’aborder des préoccupations quant au 150e anniversaire du Canada. La présentation a servi d’instrument critique et créatif pour mieux faire prendre conscience de la pluralité des identités, des cultures et des langues des Premières nations. Présentés comme une étude de cas, les récits expérientiels des élèves de l’élémentaire et leurs enseignants offraient un espace, un moment et un lieu à l’initiation et à la discussion de processus de décolonisation dans les programmes d’études de l’élémentaire. Trois outils interprétatifs — la narration et la narration par réitération, l’élargissement et l’enfouissement — ont guidé les élèves et leurs enseignants alors qu’ils retissaient les liens entre l’enseignement et l’apprentissage et les récits, le contenu et les perspectives autochtones. Mots clés : narration et narration par itération, décolonisation, recherche basée sur les arts, curriculum créatif et curriculum de base, Commission de vérité et réconciliation
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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 | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".