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Record W2904510715 · doi:10.4324/9781351172004-6

Bricks for Empire Building

2018· book-chapter· en· W2904510715 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Philip Bean, Joy Melville

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicArchitecture and Cultural Influences
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEmpireHistoryAncient history

Abstract

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In the nineteenth century, child migrants were shipped off for ostensibly philanthropic reasons, to protect them from the evils of their environment in Britain. But in the twentieth century, philanthropy took second place to unadulterated imperialism. Child migrants were thought of as "Bricks for Empire Building". The main reason for this was the Boer War in South Africa which ended in 1902. The idea of farm schools was by no means new; Barnardo had built one in Russell, Manitoba, many years earlier. One of their major disadvantages was that they were all set in the open countryside, isolated from people. Children, faced with their new surroundings usually in the middle of nowhere, were often totally bewildered. Fairbridge stressed that the farm schools were no charitable undertaking but an "imperial investment". There would therefore be no shame in being a pauper, every child would be proud to be representing England.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.613
Threshold uncertainty score0.965

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0360.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.064
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.200 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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