Centering First Voice in Indigenous Ways of Knowing in a Foundational Indigenous Health Course
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Fall 2024, the University of Calgary Faculty of Nursing launched its inaugural Indigenous health course within the new Bachelor of Science in Nursing curriculum. Rather than simply providing a stand-alone course, this first-year course provides the foundation for ongoing learning and transformation needed to prepare nursing students to provide culturally safe care to Indigenous peoples. In this article, we will share the curriculum design process and implementation of the first iterations of the course. We will highlight the long-standing relationships and trust built over years that made it possible for a group of women (a Mi'kmaw/Irish/English settler scholar, a Scottish/German settler nurse scholar, and a Lakota/Dakota Elder, and scholar) to work together from course design to implementation and validation. Through the embodied practice of "first voice" as eloquently articulated in the epilogue by Graveline, we are leading change through stories of lived experiences that enable us to forefront Indigenous ways of knowing, being, doing, and connecting from our unique locations.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it