Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) and the climate of colonialism: pedagogy, intellectual emancipation, and decolonial futures
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article critiques the role of education in perpetuating colonial-capitalist social and ecological systems by exploring Indigenous pedagogies, particularly those in Inuktitut (an Indigenous language spoken by Inuit (a circumpolar Arctic and sub-Arctic Indigenous people of Canada and Greenland) in northern Canada) speaking Inuit communities. It compares Inuit Elder teachings with Jacques Rancière’s ideas on universal education and intellectual emancipation , demonstrating that such ideals are not only possible but actively practiced in Indigenous communities outside the academy. This article highlights Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit traditional knowledge) (IQ), a pedagogy emphasizing equality, trust, and respect between elders, students, and the natural world, as an alternative to Western, anthropocentric learning models. By examining Indigenous knowledge systems, this article critiques Rancière’s Eurocentric perspective and proposes that these pedagogies offer decolonizing potential, particularly in addressing climate change and environmental degradation.
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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 | 0.002 |
| 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 | 0.001 | 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".