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A NEW APPROACH TO DEPICTING THE FAR EASTERN REGIONS IN MODERN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

2024· article· en· W4405863971 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueChildren s Readings Studies in Children s Literature · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDiscourse Analysis and Cultural Communication
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFar EastHistoryGeographyArchaeology

Abstract

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This article examines the relationship between the age category of readers and the ways in which geographical space is represented in children’s and adolescent literature. The selected materials are books from contemporary Russian literature that focus on Chukotka, an extremely remote and exotic border region often portrayed as a frontier. These works reflect the natural-geographical substrate through the use of toponyms, descriptions of flora and fauna, and the occupations of residents. However, myths and fairy tales are central to the narrative. The combination of scientific, educational, and artistic components varies depending on the readers’ age group. In the “Tales of the Far East” series, Chukotka is depicted from the perspective of a child from central Russia, with fairy tales framed by the modern world, conveyed through travelogue or fantasy models. Sources include works by historians, ethnographers, and folklorists. In Rudashevsky’s story, the artistic element predominates, using adventure genre techniques, as suggested by the title “The Eater is Looking for a White Owl.” The author reconstructs the life of a now-extinct Inuit tribe, with the narrative supplemented by historical information from anthropologist Dmitry Oparin. The story portrays the tragic clash between the mythological worldview, the ancient lifestyle of sea animal hunters, and advancing civilization, leading to environmental disasters and the extinction or assimilation of indigenous peoples. Thus, the cultural landscape of Chukotka is constructed through the historical dynamics of these books.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.627
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.004
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.344
Teacher spread0.308 · 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