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Abstract
On the Cover Portions of the following are based on interviews with the artist on October 5, 2009.The son of a British coal miner, he became a teacher of Canadian First Nations children.A product of formal academic art training, he turned into a self-described "neo-Canadian cloissonist."How did Ted Harrison, the now 84-year-old artist whose painting The Boat serves as this month's cover art, accomplish these transformations?Harrison was born in the English mining village of Wingate, County Durham, in 1926.His father, who was largely self-educated, went down into the mines to open the small doors for coal tubs to pass through.He made sure that Harrison and his sister graduated from the local school.Attending college both before and after World War II, Harrison received diplomas in art and art teaching; his formal education was completed some 30 years later, with a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Alberta.During and after World War II, Harrison spent three years in the intelligence field section of the British army.Through his army service and subsequent teaching posts, he spent a number of years in India, Egypt, East Africa, New Zealand, and Malaysia.Along the way, he recounted, "I learned Urdu and Swahili, and I became interested in other cultures.You might say it opened the door on other cultures for me" (Kirchhoff, 1989, p. C15).After returning to England, Harrison noticed a newspaper ad: "Teachers needed in the land of the mighty moose.Weaklings need not apply."He comments now, "In school, I had read [the poems of] Robert W. Service, [Jack London's] White Fang-the usual books-and I wanted to see where those people had lived to write such wonderful stories."Harrison, his wife, and his young son moved to Canada in 1967."We had a sense of adventure and thought we'd head for Canada to seek our fortune."Initially making their home in Northern Alberta, the family ultimately settled in the Yukon.Although they were an ocean and a continent away from Northern England, Harrison reflects that his roots in an English mining town helped him adapt to life in small towns in the Yukon: "In mining villages, everyone is treated as one big family, friendly to each other.Native groups treated people the same."Harrison taught art to students ranging from second graders to adults."When I got a teaching job in a town called Carcross in the Yukon, it was like going to Tahiti for Gauguin or residing in Arles for Vincent Van Gogh. . . .I suddenly found the subject matter I had been waiting a lifetime to paint" (Baele, 1982, p. 30).Harrison held his first Canadian exhibition in the Whitehorse Library in 1969.He continued to teach art for 30 years, influencing generations of Northern Canadian students and families.The author and/or illustrator of nine books, a number of which are best-selling children's books, all with Northern Canadian themes, he has received four honorary doctoral
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.818 | 0.678 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".