“Neither Unimportant nor Uninstructive”: An Examination of the Socio-Political Context and Content of Rev. Moses Harvey’s 1885 Newfoundland History Textbook for Schools
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1885, a decade after the creation of the denominational school system in Newfoundland, Rev. Moses Harvey published his Text-book of Newfoundland History: For the use of Schools and Academies. The book was embraced by the denominational superintendents and used in denominational schools. Two factors made Harvey’s book successful: his treatment of churches and positive characterization of the potential of Newfoundlanders and Newfoundland. This article analyses Harvey’s characterization of Newfoundland’s history, his imagining of Newfoundlanders as a people, and the significance of the book’s acceptance within an educational system that has often been depicted as divisive and partly responsible for undermining national development. Harvey’s book had significant appeal because of its heroic colonial narrative and because it cast churches as partners in nation building, giving rich insight into the texture of an emerging settler nationalism in nineteenth century Newfoundland and its place within Newfoundland's denominational school system.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.038 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".