It’s textbook: controlling the narrative about residential schools in Ontario classrooms
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction. Between 1831 and 1996, 149 residential schools were established in Canada with the purpose of assimilating young Indigenous children by stripping them of their language, culture and history. However, residential schools have been historically absent as a topic of study in Ontario primary and secondary school classrooms. Method. This study examines the way curricula and textbooks approved for use in Ontario classrooms by the Ministry of Education between 1998 and 2024 help control information taught to students about residential schools. Analysis. These materials are analysed to examine the evolution in the number of times residential schools are mentioned as well as the quality of these descriptions to better understand the culture of information control which surrounds the topic of residential schools. Results. These educational materials contain a lack in both quantity and quality in the description of residential schools despite a slight increase in the number of times residential schools are mentioned in these materials after 2013. Conclusions. These results reflect the effects of political information control on educational materials and its impact on the way residential schools have been relegated to the margins of Canadian history in favour of a nationalistic White settler colonial narrative.
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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 | 0.009 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| 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 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".