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Record W7155690481 · doi:10.65528/9780807782590-001

Foreword: Educational Colonial Masquerades Across the Americas

2010· book-chapter· W7155690481 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ofelia García

Bibliographic record

VenueTeachers College Press eBooks · 2010
Typebook-chapter
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDecolonial Thought and Epistemologies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsColonialismIndigenousEthnic groupRace (biology)Colonial period

Abstract

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Educational Colonial Masquerades Across the Amer i casEducation is often hailed as the supreme societal equalizer.But is it?In this volume, Limerick, Schissel, López-Gopar, and Huerta Cordova uncover the role that education has played in the ongoing coloniality of Abya Yala-that is, North, Central, and South Amer i ca.Through the contributions of scholars in these regions, we re-see how educational policies and practice have allowed acts of epistemic violence to masquerade as benevolence.The chapters also deepen readers' conceptual understandings of coloniality, as well as foreground acts that open up decolonizing educational spaces in the pre sent.Coloniality is not simply theoretically presented in this volume; the work interrogates and aims to interrupt the notions that knowledge is universal, that language and culture are monolithic, that identity is static, that gender is binary, and that some bodies belong at the margins.As this volume continuously shifts our epistemic location as readers, it constitutes us as dynamic subjects who are constantly searching for the interconnectedness between more fixed historical repre sen ta tions, and the discourses that are constituting us as subjects in-the-moment.As the chapter by López-Gopar et al. says: "Decoloniality is a long journey on a twisted road where nothing is given freely."The chapters in this book give voice to the presence of Indigenous, African, and LGBTIQ+ people in Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and the United States, and show us some of the ways colonial educational policies and practices are, as Ratt et al. (Chapter 7, this volume) say, quoting Margaret Kovach, "relational at [the] core."What emerges is a portrait of an Amer i ca that is often studied as geo graph i cally separate nationstates, but where the history of colonialism and its per sis tent coloniality runs through its venas abiertas, and especially its schools.Putting alongside each other practices of intercultural bilingual education in Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, with assessment of language proficiency in Ecuador and the United States, with language teaching in Brazil and Colombia and an Intensive English program in the United States, what stands out is how the racialized students themselves remain unseen.Educational policies and practices, even those purportedly designed to help racialized students, reproduce conceptual understandings of language, culture, and gender that privilege white heteronormative students with institutional power.Nothing-not intercultural bilingual education or test accommodations or

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.026
Threshold uncertainty score0.087

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0260.004

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.

Opus teacher head0.061
GPT teacher head0.349
Teacher spread0.288 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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".

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