Groundings!: Contextualizing Educational Labour in Sustaining Black Revolutionary Movements
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper describes community education within Bathurst, a Black community in Ontario, Canada. The major objective is to use Walter Rodney’s Groundings as an interpretive framework to establish continuities in Black (Caribbean) freedom efforts between those in the pre-independence and independence period (1930s to 1979) and contemporary activity. Groundings are a historical practice of community education for Black revolutionary initiatives. Community educational practices became an important tool in building revolutionary capacity and solidarity in Caribbean organizations because they build a critical bridge across the gap between idea and action. Idea and actions can belong to either intellectual elites or grassroots actors, but class factors usually result in a binary with the former restricted to intellectual elites and the latter arising from frustration and anti-discrimination efforts of (Black) masses. It is through community education that the binary is neutralized and revolutionary formation can build. Caribbean organizing was transnational in nature, and remain so today. Analyzing Diasporic spaces like Bathurst holds lessons for the Caribbean and vice versa.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.032 | 0.055 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".