Mitakuye oyasin (all my relations): navigating our research journey through the co-creation and sharing of an Indigenous physical literacy enriched early years initiative
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Physical literacy embraces a wholistic approach to movement, integrating physical, social, emotional, and spiritual wellness. Supporting physical literacy development in early childhood, ages 3 to 5, is essential for fostering well-being. An Indigenous and non-Indigenous team of community leaders and scholars embarked on a journey with Knowledge Holders, Indigenous families, and early childhood educators to co-create, expand, and sustain a culturally rooted physical literacy initiative that promoted wholistic wellness. This paper presents a methodological reflection on the evolution of Nature’s Way–Our Way as implemented in eight Indigenous and three non-Indigenous early learning centers in Saskatchewan, Canada. Through fieldnotes, observations, and reflections, we examine our journey of community collaboration, guided by the Lakota concept of mitakuye oyasin (all my relations). By centering relationality and co-creation, we highlight how Indigenous-led research can evolve within a community context, offering insights into the transformative nature of research that prioritizes relationships, reciprocity, and lived experience.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| 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".