Research Is Ceremony
Indigenous Research Methods
This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice.
About the book
Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice. Relationships don’t just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality. Indigenous researchers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony that is Indigenous research. Indigenous research is the ceremony of maintaining accountability to these relationships. For researchers to be accountable to all our relations, we must make careful choices in our selection of topics, methods of data collection, forms of analysis and finally in the way we present information.
Indigenous Resistance & Decolonization Research & Theory Social Work
Contents
- Foreword and Conclusion
- Getting Started
- On the Research Journey
- Can a Ceremony Include a Literature Review?
- The Elements of an Indigenous Research Paradigm
- Relationality
- Relational Accountability
- Articulating an Indigenous Research Paradigm
- Conclusions