Abstract
Occupation is one of the core concepts of occupational therapy, and essential for the education of occupational therapy. The purpose of this article is to introduce the program to teach the concept of occupation and occupational being for the student who study occupational therapy. In this article, I introduce the program that is based on occupational science and aimed to develop the professional identity for the students of early stage of studying occupational therapy. It consists of eight classes with the following topics: 1) the values of occupational therapy and their changes through the history, 2) understanding occupation and occupational being, 3) perspectives of occupation, 4) meaningful occupation, 5) contexts of occupation, 6) meaningful occupation and understanding of occupational being, 7) occupational justice, 8) occupational therapy and occupation. Each class is consisted of 90 minutes length. Several teaching strategies, such as lectures, practice in the classes, groupwork, and group presentation, and assignments for the students.
