Northern perspectives on board Students on Ice, and Beyond: A report on the 2016 Expedition
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Abstract
Executive Summary: \nThis research is focused on the participation of Northern students in the youth program called Students on Ice (SOI). SOI is a non-profit foundation based in Gatineau, Quebec that takes youth ages 14-24 from around the world on ship-based educational expeditions to the Polar Regions. Deeply embedded in the education program and expedition experience are science education, the spirit of exploration, experiential learning, and youth leadership development. A growing number of youth and adults from the circumpolar regions (Alaska, Canada [Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik/Northern Quebec, Nunatsiavut/Labrador] and Greenland) participate in SOI each year. SOI continues to make program changes to better respond to and include Northerners. \nIn the context of this unique youth experience, this research asks: \n1. What dimensions of the SOI experience (before, during and after) have the most significant impacts on Northern youth and educators, especially in terms of (but not limited to): \na. supporting personal growth, education and leadership skills? \nb. encouraging engagement with and ongoing dialogue regarding important Arctic issues, such as (but \nnot limited to) climate change? \n2. What dimensions of the SOI experience best facilitate learning from the perspectives of Northerners about \nthe North? \n3. Based on the experiences and perspectives of Northerners, how can SOI improve its programs to increase \nresponsiveness to Northern peoples and communities? \nThe research was conducted on the 2016 Arctic expedition, involving multiple methods: participant observation, pre-expedition and end-of-expedition workshops, one-on-one interviews with staff members, small group interviews with students, one-on-one interviews by phone after the expedition with students, and analysis of documents such as feedback forms and social media postings. \nThis report offers a detailed account of the Northern youth experience on SOI, and the integration of Northern perspectives during the program, from my own perspective as well as those of students and staff. As a partially ethnographic project, it attempts to give descriptive insight into how SOI works and how being part of SOI affects participants. As a partially evaluative project, this report summarizes 54 suggestions for improvements or initiatives that should be continued. In general, the improvements that Northern youth could benefit from consist of ongoing efforts to help them express themselves (including their fears and challenges), discuss difficult topics relevant to their communities, set goals and realize those goals during and after the expedition. \nNorthern youth were greatly affected by: the Northern student pre-program; becoming proud “Arctic Ambassadors”; relationships with Inuit and non-Indigenous Northern staff members; visiting the abandoned village of Hebron; going through the process of leaving home, becoming comfortable away and then returning; participating in experiential environmental education; and, the opportunity to take risks. I found that Northern perspectives were made a central part of SOI’s educational program by: having as many Northern youth and adults on board as possible; respect shown to Northern cultures by SOI staff; integration of Northern perspectives throughout the program; and, having personal encounters with places that represent an Arctic homeland. \nI gratefully acknowledge the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for providing my post- doctoral research salary, and Students on Ice for covering the costs of my travel on the expedition.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.002 |
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".