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Record W4416768357 · doi:10.26522/brocked.v34i2.1217

Investigating Public School Language Initiatives in Northern Manitoba

2025· article· en· W4416768357 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Frank Deer

Bibliographic record

VenueBrock Education Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMultilingual Education and Policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndigenousIndigenous languageLegislatureResource (disambiguation)Language planningIndigenous educationSchool system

Abstract

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An emergent imperative in public school priorities across Canada in recent years is that of Indigenous education. An important part of this imperative, as articulated by Indigenous peoples and educational authorities, is that of Indigenous language programming. In response, some public-school districts have explored and initiated Indigenous language programs. The purpose of this study was to investigate how public-school districts have navigated and managed Indigenous language programming in northern Manitoba – one of some regions in Canada for which Indigenous language use is comparatively high. Participation was solicited from public school districts in this region that have initiated Indigenous language programming. Interviews with school administrators and educators were conducted to explore how the programs were developed, implemented and the impact they have had upon students, families, and communities. This study found that public schools in northern Manitoba have experienced some success in recent years with their respective language programming in spite of difficulties such as the availability of qualified teachers, resource procurement, and legislative limitations. Participants reported successful navigation of language-related politics, linguistic nuance related to such things as dialect use, and collaboration with their respective communities.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
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 score0.080
Threshold uncertainty score0.579

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.005
Science and technology studies0.0190.006
Scholarly communication0.0050.001
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.054
GPT teacher head0.441
Teacher spread0.387 · 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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