10 “WHAT THIS PICTURE OF A GIRL MEANS TO ME” The Place of Girlhood Images in the Art History University Classroom
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2010, as an art historian interested in pictures of children, I set out to teach what I thought would be a typical art history seminar.The course objective was to analyze imagery of childhood found in the works of Canadian artists, and then, based on the assignments, to produce a website.Partway through the seminar, as a result of input from the young women in the class, the focus shift ed from imagery of childhood to pictures of girls.This new focus motivated me to approach the concept of place diff erently, not as the place of girls in works of art, but as the place of female students in the university classroom reacting to these works.In this chapter I explore the female environment of the university classroom, as well as the website we created, now called Picturing Children and Youth: A Canadian Perspective 1 within a framework that connects an anthropological interpretation of place to feminist pedagogy and art historical ways of seeing.I also consider public pedagogy and virtual networking as ways to introduce girls to works of art that counteract the sexualized images of girls that are so pervasive in the media.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
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".