Equity for new Canadians: considering cultural worldviews in adult education
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study explores the construction of cultural worldviews of a group of 8 adult immigrants in Montreal. Combining the methods of critical ethnography and case study, I explore the nature of the experiences of the research participants in specific contexts of adult education and in integration generally. After observing three adult education English as a second language classrooms, I conducted a series of five monthly interviews with 8 volunteer research participants from various geographical and linguistic origins. The participants explain what aspects of their identity are influenced by historical, temporal, and cultural factors, and what aspects change under the fluid, evolving circumstances of integration. Of particular interest is the intersection of personal situations and external structures which are beyond the control of the individuals. My specific focus in this study is how micro-level, personal factors interplay with macro-level, structural factors in the life experiences of new Canadians. My interest in the construction of cultural worldviews fits into a broader context of providing equal opportunities to new Canadians through adult education. Recent immigrants are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed than Canadian-born citizens, and earn significantly less. One of the goals of this critical ethnographic work is to provide insights into how adult education programs might more effectively encourage young adult immigrants to successfully reach their educational and personal goals. I provide specific suggestions for immigration and education programs and policies, and more general recommendations of changing assimilationist ideology at deep structural levels. The major findings of the thesis add to theories of social constructivism by emphasizing the significance of considering differences regarding historical, political, economic and cultural environments on the cultural worldviews of new Canadians.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".