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Record W1985804945 · doi:10.1353/can.2007.0035

Mike Pearson at Oxford: War, Varsity, and Canadianism

2007· article· en· W1985804945 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
C. P. Champion

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Historical Review · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOptimal distinctiveness theorySymbol (formal)HistoryBritishnessNationalismEpiphanySociologyTheologyLawPhilosophyPsychologyPolitical sciencePolitics

Abstract

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The connection between Oxford University and Canadian nationalism is often cited but has been little explored. Oxford appears to have been something of an epiphany, a rite of passage from which the Canadians returned confident of their equality and distinctiveness, determined to be colonial no longer. It was, after all, a circle of Oxford alumni who presided over so great a symbol of independent nationhood as Lester Pearson’s Maple Leaf flag of 1965, based on a design submitted by George Stanley. Still, if Pearson and his contemporaries gained a new consciousness of themselves as Canadians, it tends to be overlooked that Oxford reinforced their Britishness as well as their Canadianism. The flag was fundamentally an expression of British-Canadianism that can be traced, in part, to Oxford where Pearson and Stanley earned their ‘blue’ playing hockey. It was a fulfilment, rather than a rejection, of British liberal imperialism. The ‘Res Canadiana’ (as distinct from the Res Britannica) was the product of a British world, and post-1965 Canadianism cannot be understood without reclaiming and deciphering the Britishness underneath. Le lien entre l’Université Oxford et le nationalisme canadien est souvent évoqué, mais il est peu étudié. Oxford semble avoir été une sorte d’épiphanie, un rite de passage duquel les Canadiens revenaient confiants de leur égalité et de leur caractère distinct, et déterminésà ne plus être des colons. Après tout, c’est un groupe d’anciens étudiants d’Oxford qui a mené à l’instauration en 1965 du grand symbole de la nation indépendante que représente le drapeau unifolié de Lester Pearson, en se basant sur un concept soumis par George Stanley. Néanmoins, si Pearson et ses contemporains ont pris conscience de qui ils étaient en tant que Canadiens, on oublie parfois qu’Oxford a aussi renforcé leur côté britannique. Le drapeau était une expression de cette dualité britannico-canadienne pouvant être partiellement associée à Oxford, et Pearson et Stanley ont représenté leur université en jouant au hockey. Il s’agissait d’un accomplissement, plutôt que d’un rejet, de l’impérialisme libéral britannique. Le ‘Res Canadiana’ (distinct du Res Britannica) est un produit du monde britannique, et on ne peut pas comprendre le canadianisme post-1965 sans tenir compte du côté britannique sous-jacent.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.073
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.226 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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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