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Record W4412840422 · doi:10.25071/2291-5796.174

Words that Come Before All Else: An Embodied Decolonizing Praxis

2025· article· en· W4412840422 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Heather Bensler, M. Paul

Bibliographic record

VenueWitness The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIndigenous Health, Education, and Rights
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEmbodied cognitionPraxisSociologyAestheticsEpistemologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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Abstract: In this article, we consider the communal practice of reading the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address: Ohen:ton Karihwatehkwen as an entry point into anti-racism work in nursing education. We describe how this practice, inspired by Kimmerer’s (2013) Braiding sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teaching of plants, creates brave and generative spaces for students and educators to engage in difficult conversations about settler colonial violence and its ongoing impacts on Indigenous Peoples. We consider a broad theoretical overview of the history and practice of the Thanksgiving Address and how as a decolonizing practice, it works to counter the colonial logics that often dominate western academic institutions. The intentional and embodied practice teaches us about our kinship responsibilities, moves us toward a renewed relationship with the human and more-than-human world, cultivates gratitude, reciprocity, and a sense of belonging, and prepares us to engage in anti-racism work.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.997
Threshold uncertainty score0.028

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.036
Scholarly communication0.0060.010
Open science0.0010.010
Research integrity0.0030.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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 head0.027
GPT teacher head0.385
Teacher spread0.358 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2025
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