The Figured World of Globalization and Cosmopolitanism and Korean Temporary Migrant Parents` Practices of their Children`s Language Education
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study explores Korean parents` narratives and practices for their children`s English education through the theoretical lens of “figured worlds” (Holland, Skinner, Lachicotte, and Cain, 1998). Figured worlds, collectively shared sets of ideologies and practices among members of a group, help to analyze the practice from the participant`s perspective. The study focuses on Korean temporary migrant families with 3- to 8-year-old children who have already arrived in the United States. From 2003 to 2006, I conducted an ethnographic study of Korean international families in a university town in the Midwest. I investigated what motivates parents to implement this extreme practice of English education, that is, migration. The analysis discloses the parents have somewhat exaggerated beliefs on effectiveness of English education for their children. Those beliefs have been justified and intensified through their shared narrative in the figured worlds of globalization and cosmopolitanism. The parents also construct this narrative by psychologically interacting with their past experience and present situation.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".