Education of Avanersuarmiut, the Northernmost People in Qaanaaq
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper describes how the concept of centre-periphery is linked to modernity, and thus to colonialism and coloniality, by examining the education of non-Kalaallisut-speaking Avanersuarmiut children in Qaanaaq through teaching materials, national tests, and final exams in Kalaallisut, Danish, and English. Within coloniality, the multidialectal perspective is not considered relevant, and the emphasis on the standard language marginalizes local dialects to near extinction. Despite linguistic challenges at the start of schooling, children in Qaanaaq eventually achieve scores comparable to those of Kalaallisut-speaking children. However, due to limited exposure to Danish and English, they obtain low scores in these subjects. When they move to other parts of Greenland for further education, they struggle not only with Danish and English but also with Kalaallisut, facing stigma because of their accent. Despite these challenges, many persevere, supported by second-chance programs that help them eventually complete their education.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".