Foster parents’ engagement in the development and maintenance of Indigenous children’s and youth’s cultural identities
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Abstract
• Cultural engagement is an important dimension of the foster caregiving experience. • Foster parents employ unique strategies to support cultural continuity. • Communication regarding cultural considerations for foster parents is limited. • Promotion of Indigenous children’s personal construction of identity is important. Very little is known about what culturally matched and non-matched foster parents are doing together to support their Indigenous children’s cultural identities, although the outcomes of culturally matched caregiving for children are well documented. The purpose of this study was to describe how foster parents and caregivers engage together to support the development and maintenance of the cultural identities of Indigenous children and youth in their care. The action-project method, informed by contextual action theory, guided data collection and analysis. This qualitative method was used to understand the joint actions between caregivers – or between single caregivers and their significant support person – of the four dyads and two single caregivers ( N = 10) who participated in this study. Three themes emerged from the research: nurturing children’s cultural connections, humility and self-education, and creatively finding and using social resources. All caregivers in the study described their efforts to connect children to their communities: (a) advocating for and on behalf of the children, (b) developing connections with the children and their family and community, and (c) maintaining a good relationship with others involved in the children’s circle of care. Research with transcultural foster parents suggests that cultural engagement is an important dimension of the caregiving experience. Further studies can investigate dilemmas foster caregivers experience in providing cross-cultural care. Future research on foster caregiver efforts to be authentic to their own cultures and to the cultures of their Indigenous foster children is warranted.
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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 | 0.004 | 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 | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".