Research Is Ceremony : Indigenous Research Methods
by Shawn WilsonFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2009-04-01
Publisher(s): Ingram Pub Services
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Shawn Wilson works in the department of rural health at Northern Rivers University in New South Wales, Australia.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. 5 |
| Foreword and Conclusion | p. 6 |
| My Writing Style | p. 8 |
| Sequencing of the Book | p. 9 |
| Getting Started | p. 12 |
| Introduction | p. 15 |
| Purpose of the Book | p. 19 |
| Research Question | p. 20 |
| On the Research Journey | p. 22 |
| Beginning My Research Saga | p. 22 |
| Researcher Background-Introducing the Storyteller | p. 32 |
| Definition of Terms | p. 33 |
| How I Searched for an Answer to the Question | p. 35 |
| Overview of the Dominant Research Paradigms | p. 35 |
| Strategy of Inquiry | p. 39 |
| Can a Ceremony Include a Literature Review? | p. 43 |
| The Progression of an Indigenous Research Paradigm | p. 44 |
| A Chronology of Aboriginal Research | p. 45 |
| The Development of an Indigenous Paradigm | p. 52 |
| A Shift in Terminology, a Shift in Understanding | p. 54 |
| The Criterion for Indigenous Research | p. 55 |
| The Elements of an Indigenous Research Paradigm | p. 62 |
| On a Journey with My Friends | p. 62 |
| Introducing an Indigenous Research Paradigm | p. 69 |
| Elements of an Indigenous Research Paradigm | p. 71 |
| Indigenous Ontology and Epistemology | p. 73 |
| Indigenous Axiology and Methodology | p. 77 |
| Relationality | p. 80 |
| Building Relations at the Indigenous Scholars Conference | p. 81 |
| Relations with People | p. 84 |
| Relations with the Environment/Land | p. 86 |
| Relations with the Cosmos | p. 89 |
| Relations with Ideas | p. 91 |
| Relational Accountability | p. 97 |
| Ways of Applying an Indigenous Research Paradigm | p. 100 |
| Topic: How We Choose What to Study | p. 108 |
| Methods: How We Gather Information | p. 110 |
| Analysis: How We Interpret Information | p. 116 |
| Presentation: How We Transfer Knowledge | p. 122 |
| Articulating an Indigenous Research Paradigm | p. 126 |
| An Indigenous Research Paradigm in Action | p. 127 |
| Conclusions | p. 135 |
| References | p. 139 |
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