<i>The Possibilities of Play in the Classroom: On the Power of Aesthetic Experience in Teaching, Learning, and Researching</i> by Margaret Macintyre Latta
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The beauty of inviting and acknowledging the processes and/or the products of learning in myriad forms to emerge, of believing in a philosophical artistic eurhythmy that can be born from both the harmonious and the discordant elements in our environment, of celebrating the aesthetics of and in education: these comprise a foundation in this book through studious participation in the processes of creating in teaching, learning, and researching.Latta indicates that her purpose with this book is to explore the possibilities and concrete implications of aesthetic play in school.How this is done reaches into fine arts in an overall sense, bringing a large-scale applicability and potential interest for this work in education.With this book Latta describes an artistic journey in which she creates slowly, carefully, sometimes with awkward articulation, and other times with strong, fluent stances, reexploration results.The writing of this entire book in the present tense is effective, intentionally or unintentionally, in presenting these variations in work experience, in showing the gradual development of perceptual confidence and artistic form as the description progresses.Latta examines the creating process over a two-year period with three teachers and 26 middle-age students in the Creative Arts Centre, Milton Williams School, Calgary Board of Education, via a presentation of relevant theory in educational research, in aesthetic and ontological philosophy, followed by a description of her participation with and interviewing of students, parents, teachers, and a reflection in this work of the simultaneous relations of the theory and practice of aesthetic play.Latta creates this artistic research publication through the metaphoric image of collage.In her study she includes illustrative collages of her own in which she develops thematic textual artwork as a part of each.Examples of student collages have been chosen and included as well.The collages are a beautiful component of the demonstration in this book of aesthetic play.They form stations of beauty for the reader to visit, experience, and integrate with the research.For this reason it is surprising that no colored works were included; having even a few collages in color could have had strong effect.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.005 |
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".