The right hand of fellowship : home education in Nova Scotia and ideological challenge
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis presents home education in Nova Scotia as a revitalized, rational social movement. Home education is examined within the "revitalization model" described by Anthony F. C. Wallace (1958). Wallace's conversion analogy was chosen not because of any bias either for or against any religious motivation, but, instead, to delineate the process of cultural conversion in its entirety from the recognition stage to that of regeneration and transformation. This model proves an apt metaphor for describing the small "s" spiritual journey taken by parent-educators in the formation of the Nova Scotia Home Education Association as a non-sectarian political group and the structure of new Departmental regulations for 1993/94. By employing this model and utilizing a variety of interview techniques, a snapshot emerges of a group who resembles, in many respects, the larger public school community. \n \nAlthough this study provides current estimates of home schooling families, it is not intended as a census of a dynamic and growing movement in the province. \n \nThe study also examines Canadian legal precedents, explores the roots of alternative education and identifies the principal curricula proposed by leading home education thinkers. The study raises implications for the public school system and concludes with suggested recommendations for the professional educator.
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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 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.001 |
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".