‘I was content just staying within my own circle’: interrogating the relationship between sport and acculturation among Chinese international students at a Canadian university
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The aim of this study is to understand the sport and physical activity experiences of Chinese international students within a large Canadian public university in Toronto, Canada. This aim was addressed by conducting semi-structured interviews with nine Chinese international students enrolled at this university and analyzing the data through acculturation theory. The study found that sport was primarily utilized for helping participants maintain connections to their culture; an outcome of the acculturation process classified as separation (Berry, 2005), by helping them build a sense of community with fellow Chinese international students. We argue that creating such spaces for sport participation was instrumental to helping the participants navigate the dominant campus culture. Although there was also some evidence that sport created opportunities for the participants to interact with Canadian students, they experienced institutional and cultural challenges that prevented them utilizing sport to connect with, and feel a part of the broader university community. Based on these findings, we argue that sport can potentially be a useful tool for international students to maintain connections to their cultural community, though this is dependent on the demographics of such a community within each individual university campus. And while sport is often promoted as an effective tool for integration amongst international students, engaging in sport or physical activity with domestic students does not, on its own, result in the achievement of such goals and is insufficient without accounting for broader cultural challenges and barriers.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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".