The development of consciousness and positionality of a recently immigrated international student in engineering education in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The first engineering education institution in the American continent was the Royal Academy of Artillery, Fortification and Design, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [1]. The institution was funded in 1792 in a military context to build forts to protect the Portuguese colony from the local populations [2]. There are connections between engineering and colonization that persist today, and manifest in different ways. For example, for centuries, Canada has relied on settlers for labor. Many immigrants are professionals and students who develop knowledges, skills, and behaviours needed for jobs to support the Canadian economy. Immigrants may arrive with no historical background, ignorant of the history and current colonial situation in Canada. This can make international student immigrants an instrument for maintaining the colonial structure of the state. In the academia, there is not always time to reflect on the systems that the university assists in reproducing. This paper is a personal reflection on my experiences and my role as an international student in engineering education in the colonial Canadian context of the XXI century.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".