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Record W7155519540 · doi:10.71446/zp48937520

Staying Open to the Unknown

2025· book-chapter· W7155519540 on OpenAlexaffabout
Melissa Jay, Sandra Collins

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInterdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies
Canadian institutionsAthabasca University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumilityCultural humilityTransformative learningCeremonyFoundation (evidence)Lifelong learningReflective practiceAlliance

Abstract

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In this final chapter Melissa and Sandra pause to reflect on their relationship as co-editors, the collaborative process of writing the book, and what they have learned along the way from each other and from the other contributors to this work. They then invite readers into their own reflective process on their learning and unlearning throughout the book, attending to what they will carry forward and what questions or uncertainties remain for them. They revisit the “Calls to Action” from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and some of the threads they have woven through the book, including understanding therapist positionalities (i.e., epistemologies, ontologies, and axiologies) as a foundation for embracing cultural humility and pluralism in ways of knowing, doing, and being, guided by the practice of Etuaptmumk, also known as Two-Eyed Seeing. Melissa and Sandra offer visual and written prompts to support readers in revisiting the eight pathways through which they have journeyed in the book, inviting them to consider which practices have been most meaningful or transformative for them. The authors revisit the practice of cultural humility as a foundation for remaining open to new learning and unlearning as a lifelong professional and personal commitment. Melissa reminds readers of the question she posed throughout the book: How am I being in this doing? Melissa and Sandra wrap up the chapter by introducing the concept of culture as medicine, reflecting again on the importance of decolonizing and Indigenizing counselling, psychology, and other healthcare theories and practices. They speak to endings as ceremony and invite readers to honour their transition in closing this chapter in their learning process. They each offer parting messages to readers.

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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)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.021
Threshold uncertainty score0.047

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0210.042
Scholarly communication0.0200.029
Open science0.0020.012
Research integrity0.0050.015
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.005

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 head0.077
GPT teacher head0.379
Teacher spread0.302 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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