Canadian Student Mobility and the Experience of National Identity Abroad
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Globalization, as a process and a phenomenon, is impacting societies around the world in both subtle and tangible ways. National borders are being transcended, blurred and, some contend, increasingly irrelevant. As key players in nationbuilding, governments and higher education institutions are responding to globalization using a variety of coping mechanisms. In Canada, foreign policy may be viewed as one of the ways in which the federal government attempts to help define, protect and project the concept of Canadian national identity. Meanwhile, Canadian universities are adapting to the challenges which accompany globalization by implementing internationalization strategies. One traditional, yet still relevant approach is through the provision of student mobility opportunities which enable Canadians to participate in overseas study. While the motivation on the part of students who take part in such endeavours is often for personal and, ultimately, professional gain, they inevitably assume a role in public diplomacy abroad. Consequently, there is an intersection between foreign policy and the practice of student mobility. This thesis aims to explore the role that national identity plays in the international mobility of Canadian students, and to compare it with the federal government's promotion of Canadian values and identity abroad. The research conducted involved the collection of secondary data through a literature review, and primary data obtained through qualitative interviews. The main findings reveal that study participants experienced a heightened awareness of their national identity while they were abroad. The scrutiny and attention students received based on their citizenship, along with exposure to new perspectives and the increased salience of their national identity, required students to discuss, describe and explore what it means to be Canadian. While the International Policy Statement acknowledges the contribution by these students to public diplomacy overseas, the federal government is neglecting to fully capitalize on this opportunity. The dearth of comprehensive, federally funded scholarships represents a loss of investment in Canadian public diplomacy overseas, and a loss of opportunity for those Canadian students unable to afford to study abroad experiences.
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.034 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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 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".