Staying-With Children’s Realities through Radical Hope and Minor Gestures
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper explores resistance to deficit portrayals of childhood through relational presence with children’s affective, social, and cultural realities (Noddings, 2012; Zapata et al., 2019). Drawing on the notion of radical hope (Lear, 2006), and Manning’s (2016) concept of minor gestures, the analysis examines how child agency both emerge from and unsettles systemic constraints. Using Sean Baker’s (2017) film, The Florida Project, as a pedagogical text, the study employs a hybrid methodology in which analytic prose is “intercut” with poetic fragments written in the imagined voice of Moonee, the six-year-old protagonist. These poems correspond to Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecological layers, serving as moments of pedagogical presence that witness without reducing, lingering with the immediacy of play, laughter, and fear. This analysis suggests that educators who practice staying-with (Haraway, 2016), can resist deficit frames, cultivate reflective listening, and affirm children’s everyday narratives as legitimate knowledge and ways of being.
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".