Pedagogies of radical democracy: Lessons from summer school
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
A recent academic summer school jointly offered by Simon Fraser University’s Community Engaged Research initiative (CERi) and several Participedia.net researchers, featured the theory and practice of “radical” democracy. While the content was creative and challenging, so too were the pedagogic methods—including the co-creation of democratic norms for classroom participation, identifying the students’ lived experiences of democracy on a continuum, and critiquing and co-designing radical democratic interventions into matters of shared concern. The authors co-led the summer school planning team and here examine the school’s pedagogical approaches, analyzing their efficacy and impact on student learning. We draw on students’ first-person accounts and reflections and use critical democratic theories to frame our inquiry. We examine the classroom as a democratic fractal space of possibilities and imaginaries co-constructed through conversation and engagement—a learning space to reinvent how power is acknowledged and deployed.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 it