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Record W4286796884 · doi:10.46692/9781447340201.002

Childhood and imperial training, 1875–1914

2019· other· en· W4286796884 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Rebecca J. Bates

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHistorical Education Studies Worldwide
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTraining (meteorology)HistoryComputer sciencePsychologyGeographyMeteorology

Abstract

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Take them away! Take them away! Out of the gutter, the ooze, the slime, Where the little vermin paddle and crawl, Till they grow and ripen into crime. Take them away from the jaws of death, And the coils of evil that swaddle them round, And stifle their souls in every breath They draw on the foul and fetid ground. Take them away! Away! Away! The bountiful earth is wide and free, The New shall repair the wrongs of the Old Take them away o’er the rolling sea. (Horsley qtd. in Wagner, 1982, p. 100) When Reverend John Horsley, the first secretary of the Church of England's Waifs and Strays Society, penned this poem in 1887, he framed it with the title “The Departure of the Innocents.” Yet, historians of assisted juvenile emigration have often emphasized the Victorian characterization of the rescued children as “little vermin,” rather than accepting Horsley's portrayal of the children as “innocents.” Certainly, an explanation for the increase in the number of children assisted by voluntary societies to the British dominions and crown between 1880 and 1914 remains necessary. During these years, the number of children sent to Canada from Great Britain quickly and dramatically swelled, from approximately 500 to 1,500 per year, while smaller emigration programs resumed to New Zealand, South Africa, and Australia (Parr, 1980, p. 33). This increase in assisted emigration has been understood as a response to the declining economic conditions in England. As the late 19th-century industrial slump deepened, poor children were increasingly perceived to be the “raw materials from which the ‘dangerous classes’ were formed” (Parr, 1980, p. 33). By physically removing the children from England, it is argued that emigration enthusiasts sought to prevent the children from sabotaging the nation. By 1888, when 2,104 children were removed to Canada in a single year, the rationale that emigration would save both the children and England from future corruption was firmly in place. Yet while this anxiety about increased criminality in the face of a faltering economy was a critical factor leading to the substantial growth of juvenile emigration in the 1880s, it does not adequately explain why juvenile emigration continued to escalate when the economy improved after 1895.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.074
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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)0.0130.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.311
Teacher spread0.289 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

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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