Conference is Ceremony: The Centrality of Process in Community-Based Participatory Research in Music Education With Indigenous Partners
In this paper, we highlight the centrality of process in Indigenist community-based participatory research in music education to offer new methodological insights, using a recent investigation that employed conference as research method as a case study. From our perspective as university researchers...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/16094069241282870 2024-09-30T14:35:08+00:00 Conference is Ceremony: The Centrality of Process in Community-Based Participatory Research in Music Education With Indigenous Partners Prest, Anita Goble, Scott Vazquez-Cordoba, Hector Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 2024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/16094069241282870 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/16094069241282870 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/16094069241282870 en eng SAGE Publications https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ International Journal of Qualitative Methods volume 23 ISSN 1609-4069 1609-4069 journal-article 2024 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241282870 2024-09-17T04:38:33Z In this paper, we highlight the centrality of process in Indigenist community-based participatory research in music education to offer new methodological insights, using a recent investigation that employed conference as research method as a case study. From our perspective as university researchers who are non-Indigenous or Indigenous but not to the land now known as Canada, we describe in detail the process of co-creating a conference grounded in local First Nations Protocols as a research method for our most recent study with Indigenous partners, also showing how the process is related to ceremony. This knowledge creation and sharing conference involved more than 200 Knowledge Keepers, School District Indigenous leaders, and music educators in British Columbia endeavouring to effectively embed Indigenous knowledge in K-12 music classes. We highlight ways we found to be relationally accountable, including providing adequate time to arrive at consensus in all decisions; developing and maintaining trust throughout pandemic lockdowns and restrictions; and locating additional sources of funding to facilitate all Protocols, which led Indigenous participants to report feeling that the conference was a culturally safe place and non-Indigenous participants to report that they found it to be a culturally immersive experience. We became more aware that the very process of discussion and decision making that took place at the many committee and subcommittee meetings leading up to the conference was part and parcel of the ceremonial aspect of this research. Indigenous participants deemed the outcomes and effects of the research/conference credible and trustworthy because they emerged from a planning process that was culturally informed and that had been deemed ethical, legitimate, and appropriate by all planning parties through consensus. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations SAGE Publications Canada British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) International Journal of Qualitative Methods 23 |
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In this paper, we highlight the centrality of process in Indigenist community-based participatory research in music education to offer new methodological insights, using a recent investigation that employed conference as research method as a case study. From our perspective as university researchers who are non-Indigenous or Indigenous but not to the land now known as Canada, we describe in detail the process of co-creating a conference grounded in local First Nations Protocols as a research method for our most recent study with Indigenous partners, also showing how the process is related to ceremony. This knowledge creation and sharing conference involved more than 200 Knowledge Keepers, School District Indigenous leaders, and music educators in British Columbia endeavouring to effectively embed Indigenous knowledge in K-12 music classes. We highlight ways we found to be relationally accountable, including providing adequate time to arrive at consensus in all decisions; developing and maintaining trust throughout pandemic lockdowns and restrictions; and locating additional sources of funding to facilitate all Protocols, which led Indigenous participants to report feeling that the conference was a culturally safe place and non-Indigenous participants to report that they found it to be a culturally immersive experience. We became more aware that the very process of discussion and decision making that took place at the many committee and subcommittee meetings leading up to the conference was part and parcel of the ceremonial aspect of this research. Indigenous participants deemed the outcomes and effects of the research/conference credible and trustworthy because they emerged from a planning process that was culturally informed and that had been deemed ethical, legitimate, and appropriate by all planning parties through consensus. |
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Conference is Ceremony: The Centrality of Process in Community-Based Participatory Research in Music Education With Indigenous Partners |
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