Decolonizing the Higher Education Curriculum: An Evaluation of Incorporating Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Pedagogy
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study employed a quasi-experimental, mixed-methods design utilizing a two-eyed seeing approach that foregrounds Indigenous principles of respect, reciprocity, relevance, and responsibility (Kirkness & Barnhardt, 2001). With the focus of creating community in the higher education classroom, the curriculum was designed to enhance Indigenous values of interpersonal connection, collaboration, and interdependence. In support of fostering Indigenous ways of knowing, a Knowledge Holder worked with the researchers on curriculum design and delivery. The Indigenous curriculum is presented in detail. A total of 92 students in the Bachelor of Social Work program at a southwestern Ontario university participated in the study. Overall, quantitative and qualitative results suggested that the Indigenous pedagogy was associated with increased students’ satisfaction and connectedness to the material and their peers, and greater self-reflection.
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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 | 0.042 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it