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Record W7161793613 · doi:10.82308/8163

Critical literacy: a novice teacher in an urban classroom

2012· dissertation· en· W7161793613 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Melanie Bennett

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiteracy, Media, and Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCritical literacyCurriculumCritical reflectionCritical pedagogyLiteracyGovernment (linguistics)Critical thinkingNarrativeCritical practice

Abstract

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This thesis in part examines the efforts of a teacher to bring critical literacy to life in a classroom and also defines and critiques the use of this pedagogical practice within Québec's Anglophone schools. Critical literacy is often referred to in many government based curriculums across Canada, and especially within Québec's Anglophone document; however whether or not it is enacted in the classroom is challenged. By primary means of reflection on three critical incidents of teaching and examination into professional practices what is revealed is that far too often teachers are convinced they are enacting the emancipatory purpose of critical literacy, but in reality, due to personal and outside (peers, administration, community) censorship the pedagogical act is greatly diluted. Standardized programs developed outside of Canada, like Success for All or the Daily Five, which are used in many Anglophone school boards, are used as examples of how critical literacy is often misunderstood and misappropriated. In brief, by primary means of personal narrative reflection and a review of the literature, the author examines whether or not critical literacy, as defined from a critical pedagogy position, can be found within the Québec's English Schools and what barriers exist to hinder its implementation.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.071
Threshold uncertainty score0.142

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0250.008
Scholarly communication0.0090.004
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0030.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.002

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 head0.027
GPT teacher head0.319
Teacher spread0.293 · 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 designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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