The Miqqut project: Joining literacy, culture and well-being through non-formal learning in Nunavut
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research documents the outcomes of non-formal traditional skills programs with embedded literacy. A community-based research team conducted one hundred interviews with participants and instructors of five non-formal cultural programs offered in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. Four of the five programs focused on sewing and related practices of fur preparation, pattern creation, and esthetic design. The fifth program targeted fine arts ranging from drawing to ceramics. Each program embedded literacy to varying degrees. Two of the programs also targeted personal well-being. Systematic analysis of instructor and participant testimonies reveals concurrent cultural, literacy and wellbeing outcomes in all five programs. Participants’ and instructors’ testimonies show how culture, literacy and well-being overlap for strong \nimpact in participants’ lives. Ilitaqsiniq’s research confirms that non-formal cultural programs with embedded literacy are effective venues for literacy and essential skills development. Furthermore, such programs help participants develop as resilient individuals, contributing to stronger families and communities.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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".