Preface to the Second Edition
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Abstract
Preface to the Second EditionMore than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and more than a decade and a half has passed since The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada was published in its first edition.The Challenge has served as an important resource for children's rights courses across the country and as a valuable reference for researchers and students.But the time is clearly ripe for updating.In this completely revised and expanded edition of The Challenge, we incorporate new material and add legal and philosophical perspectives to our interdisciplinary analyses of children's rights in Canada.We review decisions by the Supreme Court of Canada in which the Convention has been invoked to show how children's rights under the Convention have been judicially recognized.And we add new issues and cases that show the continuing gap between the promise and the reality of children's rights.For example, we examine Katelynn's Principle, which resulted from the inquest into the preventable maltreatment death of Katelynn Sampson, and we analyze the problems of Internet luring, as highlighted in the tragic sexual exploitation of Amanda Todd.As in the first edition, we examine the gap between Canada's commitment to implementing the rights of children, as expressed in Canada's official approval of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1991, and the actual state of children's rights in Canada.In doing so, we incorporate the most up-to-date empirical and theoretical research in our respective fields.And as in the first edition, a key reference point for our analyses is developmental psychology.We use Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory to draw attention to the important influences of families, policies, and laws on children's capacity to enjoy their rights.Politically and philosophically, we remain firmly rooted in the liberal tradition, with its rejection of proprietary notions of children and its respect for all individuals as ends in themselves, as bearers of rights with inherent dignity and worth, and as the appropriate focus of our moral concern.Children's rights are, of course, human rights.International human rights instruments, including the Convention itself,
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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 | 0.003 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.424 | 0.305 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".