“Everything starts with youth and their will to participate freely in activities” -Ethnography and discourse analysis about art and culture in youth centers in Montreal and Helsinki
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As an art educator and researcher who worked with youth in the community, I was interested in the art and cultural purposes of youth centers. Originally from Montreal(Canada), I conducted this study there as well as in Helsinki (Finland). In looking at these social-engaged spaces based in communities, the purpose of this thesis is to analyze how art and culture might take place in these informal learning contexts. I based my research on Bourdieu’s notion of symbolic violence, on youth psychosocial development and art education in the community theories to create in-depth knowledge about this topic and ask: What are the social and political discourses regarding youth centers in Montreal and Helsinki? How might access to art and culture in youth centers in Helsinki and Montreal affect a youth’s individual and social development? The hypothesis is favourable toward the benefits of art and culture on youth from individuals implied in these spaces but also recognizes there are sometimes misrecognitions about their purposes from populations and institutions. In this thesis, two forms of ethnography and discourse analysis are used. Additionally, I analyzed observations and stories from interviews with individuals who work and used to work in and for youth centers. In addition, comic art is used as a tool to contextualize the results. The results reveal several social and political discourses about youth centers and confirm the positive impacts on youth regarding access to art and culture in these spaces, as well as the misrecognitions they might face. This study is designed to create awareness regarding the access of youth to art and cultural activities for their development, regardless of the intersectionalities of their background.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".