Remembering Forced Forgetting: The Politics of Remembrance Day Ceremonies in Canadian Schools
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Abstract
In this essay, we argue that Remembrance Day ceremonies in schools promote an inadequate conception of Canadian national identity by overlooking how Indigenous experiences reside in national remembrance. We argue that Remembrance Day observances convey the notion that war happened outside of North America, while overlooking the extent to which war and genocide occurred on this very continent and in this country as part of colonization. Our concern is that the essence of Canadian national identity is reflected in the bravery of soldiers who fought a foreign enemy, while the abuse that occurred in residential schools is often construed as an anomaly, not the ‘real’ Canada, not reflective of what it means to be Canadian. Recent discoveries of Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves at residential schools point to another example of the deaths that happened as part of colonization. This essay concludes by exploring how education may contribute to a more robust form of remembrance in which Indigenous perspectives and experiences are present. Keywords: Remembrance Day, memorialization in schools, peace education, nationalism, Canadian national identity
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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 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".