Towards Capacity Building: Rejecting Hiring Practices Based on Accent and Skin Colour
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As Cambodia begins the process of capacity building in higher education, now becomes the crucial time to revisit language policies practiced in other parts of Asia as a way of caution to the prevailing philosophical, educational and theoretical ideologies that are so very much a part of language education. This paper looks at the hiring practices based upon accent and skin colour. It includes part of a critical ethnographical study that looks at various linguistic and pedagogical fallacies which continue to promote the dominant fiction of native-speaker authority. This paper addresses implications on language education within a system which perpetuates both prejudice and discrimination of non-native scholars. Higher education building in Cambodia means new beginnings, newly found freedom—I ask the question, to what extent can there be new beginnings if we continue to see remnants and echoes of Crusoe and Professor Higgins reverberating throughout the ELT classroom? Comme le Cambodge commence un processus de formation en compétences dans l’éducation supérieure, il est temps de réviser les politiques linguistiques utilisées dans d’autres pays asiatiques afin d’éviter les idéologies philosophiques, théoriques et éducatives, généralement représentatives de l’éducation en langue. Cet article analysera plus spécifiquement les pratiques d’embauche basées sur l’accent et la couleur de peau. Il inclut une étude de cas ethnographique critique qui examine plusieurs erreurs linguistiques et pédagogiques qui continuent à promouvoir l’autorité des locuteurs natifs. Cet article traite des implications que cette idée entraine dans l’éducation des langues au sein d’un système qui perpétue les préjudices et la discrimination des professeurs non natifs. La formation en compétences de l’éducation supérieure au Cambodge fait référence à un nouveau commencement, à une nouvelle paix mais je me demande s’il peut vraiment y avoir un nouveau commencement si nous continuons à voir les vestiges et à entendre les échos de Crusoe et du Professeur Higgins qui résonnent dans les salles de classes d’anglais langue étrangère?
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".