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Record W4414071315 · doi:10.1177/17461979251356891

Journalism education as a site for civic reasoning

2025· article· en· W4414071315 on OpenAlexaffabout
Robyn Ilten-Gee, James Francom

Bibliographic record

VenueEducation Citizenship and Social Justice · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducator Training and Historical Pedagogy
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsJournalismCurriculumCivicsMoral reasoningTechnical JournalismQualitative researchCitizen journalismCivic engagement

Abstract

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Journalism education can prompt young people to ask critical questions about their school and civic environments. The National Academy of Education (NAEd) recently released a report called Educating for Civic Reasoning and Discourse , in which they issue a call for educators to teach civic reasoning skills. This qualitative research study investigates an original multimedia journalism curriculum in a Grade 10 New Media course in British Columbia, Canada and explores students’ participation in civic reasoning practices. This curriculum was implemented three times between 2021 and 2022. Thirty-one students between 15 and 19 years old participated in the study. Three elements of civic reasoning are analyzed within students’ journalism stories: revising assumptions, moral resistance, and identifying the collective “we.” Participants’ journalism stories illuminate opportunities and tensions for civic reasoning pedagogy, including how to entertain multiple perspectives while still enacting moral resistance to harmful narratives.

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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)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.034

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0110.009
Scholarly communication0.0090.006
Open science0.0010.009
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.001

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 head0.055
GPT teacher head0.418
Teacher spread0.363 · 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 designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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