Political education in the climate crisis: Elaboration and reinvigoration of the agonistic model
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The paper argues that the climate crisis is a political issue, not merely a scientific issue, and that agonistic democratic theory (Mouffe) remains helpful to underpin political education. It offers three elaborations that support this argument. The first is on how the category of the “enemy” in Mouffe’s work does or does not play a role in political education. The second addresses the misinterpretation of agonistic political theory as requiring the active fostering of conflict. The third elaboration is on how antagonism can be transformed into agonism. On this point, the paper argues that agonistic political education involves the uncoercive rearrangement of the desire (Spivak) to eradicate an enemy into the desire to contest a political adversary in democratic struggle. It concludes by discussing the climate crisis as a frontier of struggle that ought to play a prominent role in political education today, and that illustrates the viability of agonistic democratic education.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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