Teleology and Educational Theory in Greenland: Contributing to a Theory of Change for The Good School
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article aims to explore what can be done to ensure that fewer children and young people in Greenland opt out of education. In doing so, I hope to contribute to the debate on a theory of change for the Atuarfitsialak educational reform, also known as “The Good School.” 1 The assumption behind the article is that prominent Greenlandic intellectuals are correct in their assessment that the main reason why children and young people drop out of secondary school is that the school—as a system—is still too Danish and does not reflect the Inuit traditional form of knowledge. Furthermore, the article asserts that there is a connection between the Inuit worldview and teleology in the Aristotelian sense, and that the problem with the school system is to be understood as a conflict between the dominant scientistic form of knowledge and other forms of knowledge. The article then discusses the basis for a theory of educational didactics that pursues a non-hierarchical approach to diverse forms of knowledge, including teleology.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.088 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| 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 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".