Subversive identities at the art museum: An ESL university student’s experience at the National Gallery of Canada
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Abstract
Abstract: Art education became interwoven with cultural mediation when a university-level English language certification class was taken on a field trip to the National Gallery of Canada. This article focuses on one ESL student who locates her subversive identity as she engages with and interprets an artwork in an interview. This student’s memorable, affective, and intimately personal thoughts and feelings, as we shall see, expose the semiotic and pedagogical importance of employing strategies that honour students’ identities and lived experiences. The authors call for more research in what they refer to as ‘critical ESL art museum education’KEYWORDS:Anglais langue étrangère; apprentissage de langue; culture; éducation muséale artistique; identités opposantes; pédagogie; affectif.ESLRésumé: Éducation artistique et médiation culturelle se sont entremêlées lors de la visite au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada d’une classe de certification de langue anglaise de niveau universitaire. Cet article se concentre sur une étudiante d’ALS qui trouve son identité subversive en découvrant et en interprétant une œuvre d’art dans le cadre d’une entrevue. Nous noterons à quel point les pensées et sentiments affectifs, extrêmement personnels et inoubliables de cette étudiante soulignent l’importance sémiotique et pédagogique du recours à des stratégies qui valorisent l’identité et le vécu des étudiants. Les auteurs souhaitent qu’il y ait davantage de recherches menées dans le domaine qu’ils nomment « l’éducation critique en ALS pour les musées des beaux-arts ». MOTS CLES: Language learning; culture; art museum education; subversive identities; pedagogy; affect
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.058 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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.
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".