Dis-possessed to SK8: Push Pedagogy as Creative Entrepreneurial Inquiry/Interventions into Urban Poverty with the Grrlz of Oasis Skateboard Factory
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This activist practitioner research thesis thinks with/skates alongside a research-creation project that attempts to land a sk8trick of push pedagogy as creative entrepreneurial inquiry/interventions into urban poverty. Push pedagogy is a new concept of public pedagogy and radical design in(ter)vention activated by the collaborative production of skateboard materials frictioning mainstream skateboard culture and economics, schooling and educational research. Grinding an intersectional critique on capitalist designs for the neoliberal city concretized by patriarchy and white supremacy, this research-creation methodology moves by collaboratively producing critical design products with the OSF GRRLZ SK8 CREW at Oasis Skateboard Factory (a Toronto District School Board alternative school / professional design studio). Exploring how a research-creation project activated student-designed skateboard materials in the city of Toronto to push against youth experiences of marginalization/dispossession/exclusion and push toward future feminist/anti-racist movements, this thesis is also a pro/motion for radical form/function/futures of knowledge creation by student skaters and creators.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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".