An Action Research Towards Developing Educational Strategies for Filipino Catholics in Response to Call to Action 59
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Abstract
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) gave its final report, including 94 Calls to Action. This made the truth and reconciliation process more prominent in Canadian society. One of these calls, the Call to Action 59, urges the church to develop education strategies related to issues brought to the fore by the TRC, specifically colonization and the residential schools. While there has been visible engagement with the TRC from the majority white settler population, there is less from the visible minorities. This thesis project utilizes action research to address this lacuna and explores prospects for the shaping of a social justice program with the Filipino Catholic Community that is culturally relevant. It aims to provide educational resources that are meaningful and relatable to them, given that the history of Filipino immigration in Canada is relatively recent. The data for this project was collected through survey questionnaires, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions involving Filipino Catholics residing within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Toronto. The findings of this study suggest there is a high level of awareness amongst this Filipino Catholic Community of Indigenous peoples and justice issues, with a lower level of practical engagement in the truth and reconciliation process. Barriers to practical engagement include low socio-economic status, infrequent interactions with Indigenous persons, lack of resonance with mainstream white-centred narratives on reconciliation, membership to the Catholic Church. The colonial experience of Filipinos, which is different from Indigenous peoples in Canada and the settler colonial situation, nuances their response in the truth and reconciliation process. The study also proposes the Filipino cultural values of kapwa and bayanihan as potential foundations of solidarity and relationship-building with Indigenous peoples. In the end, this thesis suggests that Filipino Catholics might engage in reconciliation with Indigenous peoples not merely because of reparation but rather by means of ethical considerations based on the cultural value of kapwa and bayanihan. These findings will be helpful in crafting a suitable educational program intended for Filipino Catholics, in order to enable practical engagements with the work of truth, reconciliation and healing with the Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island.
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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 | 0.045 | 0.029 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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 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".