The Educational Experience Of First Nation People In The Indian Residential School System In Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study investigated the perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes of First Nation adults who have been influenced by their education from attending an Indian Residential School system. An examination of the residual effects of this “educational opportunity” focuses on the themes and patterns that were evident then and purportedly continue today: educational opportunities driven by the issues of colonialism, racism, superiority, and ethnocentrism. An analysis of the Indian Residential School experiences and the quality of education was conducted through two research processes: (1) background review to establish what research has been previously conducted relevant to this study, and (2) interviews conducted with ten Indian Residential School adults from various First Nation communities in the province of Manitoba, Canada.The medicine wheel concept was utilized to illustrate how each participant was affected by their experience in the Indian Residential School system. The data revealed that it was a negative experience for most participants. All participants recall loneliness and pain of being separated from families and communities. Guidance, and nurturing that individuals receive from family were absent, thus the attainment of educational goals became secondary. For each participant, the ties binding families together as a unit were severed and for some, the damage was irreparable.Through empowerment, the First Nation people can begin to address the legacies of the Indian Residential School.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".