E. Maud Graham, edited by Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney, and Susanne M. Klausen A Canadian Girl in South Africa: A Teacher’s Experiences in the South African War, 1899–1902
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Abstract
MaudGraham's 1905 book about her experiences in South Africa (1902-04) offers a fascinating perspective on the country at the tail end of war and in the two years after peace between Boer farmers and the British Empire.The book's title is deceptive, because it recounts her experiences starting only at the end of the South African war, and she offers no commentary on events or experiences from 1899 to 1901.Historians Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney, and Susanne M. Klausen have made this primary document accessible by republishing it, adding footnotes to Graham's text to help contemporary readers, and writing an extensive fifty-page introductory analysis of her account.They have included many of the wonderful photographs that appeared in Graham's original publication and have added more from Graham's private collection and relevant archives.At the age of twenty-six, Maud Graham was one of forty Canadian teachers and one of three hundred British subjects who travelled to South Africa to teach Boer children, with the goal of "remaking South Africa in Britain's image" (xii).The editors write that this imperial undertaking was "explicitly designed to maintain and enhance Britain's hegemony in Southern Africa" (xvi).Graham was a "colonial contributor to imperial endeavours" (xv-xvi), and she spoke critically of the efforts of leaders of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa to ensure that Boer children continued to learn Dutch after the British victory in the South African war.Graham shares her experiences in Norval's Pont concentration camp in the Cape Colony and in Fauresmith and Kroonstad in the Orange River Colony after hostilities ceased in 1902.Her positive take on camp life and the reasons for Boer internment offer an
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.004 |
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.
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.
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