ERIC ED450985: Education Is a Total Way of Life: Models and the Reality.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A qualitative field study employing participant observation revealed that the Nisga'a, a Native people of northwest British Columbia, Canada, believe that education is a total way of life, with teaching and learning being a lifelong process. Traditionally, education was conducted by one's parents; extended family, especially maternal aunts and uncles; and members of one's clan. Education was not separated into schools, but happened in every societal setting through practical training and participation in tribal activities. With European contact, formal schooling was introduced, and progressed from missionary schools on Nisga'a land to missionary boarding schools and government-operated provincial boarding schools. The boarding schools devastated Nisga'a culture by removing children from their families and their tribal form of education, forbidding use of their native language, and exposing them to discrimination from non-Natives. Eventually the Nisga'a joined the British Columbia school system and established their own school district in their traditional territory. This kept the children home and exposed them to the traditional holistic style of education, but there is still the dichotomy of formal school and the other types of learning. The Nisga'a have provided Nisga'a language and culture courses, but other courses are provincially prescribed and not relevant to Nisga'a experience. The Nisga'a would like to see their language and culture incorporated throughout the curriculum. (Contains 36 references.) (TD)
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.233 | 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 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".