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Education and Religion in Colonial/Postcolonial Contexts

2025· book-chapter· en· W4410591989 on OpenAlexaffabout
Ratna Ghosh, Ali A. Abdi

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligious Education and Schools
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsColonialismSociologyHistoryAnthropologyArchaeology

Abstract

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Abstract This chapter aims to focus on colonial and selective postcolonial education in Canada, especially as it has been constructed through religious entities (via different churches of the Christian faith). However, the globalized organizational as well as cultural and language-based similarities can be seen in other British settler-dominated countries such as the United States of America, Australia, and New Zealand. In all these countries, the main aims of the Residential schooling system were built as Eurocentric mechanisms to ‘civilize’ and proseletize Indigenous populations. This chapter engages—with analytical and critical intentions—the cultural/educational colonial onslaught on Indigenous peoples in Canada, followed by select foci on precolonial Aboriginal education (as counter-force to the false imperial assumptions), the construction and impact of Residential schools managed by Catholic and Protestant religious groups, and ends with succinct observations on the complexity of postcolonial possibilities and/or lack thereof.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.355
Threshold uncertainty score0.706

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.011
Scholarly communication0.0040.001
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.252 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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