Reimagining Occupation 2020-2022: Perspectives of Occupational Therapists (Sandra Kirkwood)
‘Reimaging Doing,’ the theme for the celebration of World Occupational Therapy Day in October 2020, championed the call to re-imagine occupational therapy in each therapist’s practice and worldwide. Debbie Laliberte Rudman heralded the need for ‘reimagining occupation’ in 2014 (p. 373): ‘ Overall, I invite and challenge occupational scientists to be imaginative in moving forward with a transformative agenda that addresses issues of occupational rights, equity and justice as “every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination” (Dewey, 1929/1984, p. 247).’ The concept of re-imagining occupation was developed by occupational therapy scholars (Hyett et al., 2019; Kinsella & Durocher 2016; Rudman 2019; Townsend et al., 2012). The purpose of this article is to review the relevant literature on ‘re-imagining occupation,’ and to apply the knowledge to reflect on our 2020 experiences of re-imagining occupation in adult rehabilitation services in Aust...