Boy Scouts and the British World: Autonomy within an Imperial Institution, 1908–1936
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article argues that the Boy Scout movement, despite its British provenance, was not a monolithic pillar of imperial sentiment during the interwar years. In fact, the Boy Scout movement in Canada acted less like an imperial imposition than it did as an outlet for Canadian autonomy. Using three moments of transatlantic contention within the organization as case studies, this article demonstrates the existence and shape of competing understandings of Britishness, especially those held by the movement's founder, Robert Baden-Powell, and Canadian administrator James Robertson. For Baden-Powell, Britishness leant itself to conformity; for Robertson, it justified independent action. These varying notions of Britishness never undermined the axiomatic belief in the benefit of the British World system, but did compete for prominence within that system. Robertson's Canadian Boy Scout administration resisted centralization by Baden-Powell's Imperial Headquarters, emphasizing the autonomy of the dominion in place of a central authority.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 it