Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Kawa (River) Model was created to address the fundamental concern about the cultural safety of contemporary occupational therapy when taken across socio-cultural boundaries. The principal author, a Canadian occupational therapist of Japanese heritage, encountered difficulties teaching contemporary (Western) occupational therapy models to Japanese occupational therapy practitioners, teachers, and students. The (Western middle-class) cultural dimensions and biases embedded in theoretical materials imported from different cultural spaces became apparent and problematic. Japanese occupational therapists struggled to comprehend and apply occupational therapy’s core construct (occupation – as it had been socially constructed in Western cultural spaces). Iwama and his colleagues set out to develop a new, different occupational therapy model that Japanese occupational therapists could easily comprehend and effectively apply. This occupational therapy model would avoid transposing foreign narratives, cultural norms, and behavioral expectations by centralizing and privileging the client’s unique narrative of their everyday living experience. The framework design could be readily understood and applied by occupational therapists, their clients, and their families simply and comprehensibly.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.008 |
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".