On the road to enculturation : selected experiences of transition for contemporary immigrants to Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
From various perspectives and for numerous purposes the issues of transition and immigration had been researched independently. Although the two vary in content, they find themselves entwined in the hearts and lives of many immigrants, often as a single entity. The present study examines transition and immigration from the perspective of new immigrants to Canada. The research questions are discussed within the scope of a phenomenological paradigm. The interviewees represent various walks of life and different cultures. The common element of the interviewees is that they are newcomers to Canada who have been here not longer than two years. Each person was interviewed separately and the direction of the conversation was modified by using supportive guiding questions. The major themes were as follows: major markers of successful and unsuccessful transition toward full enculturation, language acquisition, self-actualization 'now' and 'before,' and ethnic-cultural-identity retention. The proposed recommendations are based on the interviewees' perceptions of what worked and what did not, with respect to their enculturation. The suggestions for psychological assistance are derived from the analysis of the interview material. Specific areas of counselling interventions are related to cultural sensitivity especially in the area of understanding the immigrant's cultural background, the client's life history, and altered self-image. Emphasis is on understanding the immigrant's social and psychological spheres of entity in relation to new situations, within the context of transitional processes which are also considered.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.039 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| 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".