Multiculturalism and Integration: Canadian and Irish Experiences
Bibliographic record
Abstract
According to the editors, Multiculturalism and Integration presents issues of diversity, integration, and identity that are characteristic of any multicultural society, but are particularly evident in Ireland and Canada. The essays presented in this book were developed from proceedings of the 2008 Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland conference. As stated in the introduction, “Multicultural and multilingual diversity are relatively recent phenomena in contemporary Ireland, whereas Canada’s policies and practices addressing cultural and linguistic diversity are several decades old and have been the object of internal and external scrutiny for some time” (1). Read as a whole, these essays, gleaned from fields such as politics, history, linguistics, and education, explore the ways in which Canada and Ireland are both similar and different in their responses to multicultural issues. Although a better understanding of how Canada and Ireland are similar merits the comparison, the reader is still left wondering “Why Canadian and Irish experiences in the same book?” The book is divided into four parts; each part as a whole will be reviewed with more attention given to chapters that the reviewer found particularly insightful.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.069 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 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".