Choosing Border Work ...
Assuming that research, the creation of knowledge, influences local power and authority and may in fact contribute to changing power relationships between First Nations and non- First Nations peoples and institutions, is it a paradox for a non-Native researcher to enter a social arena— a Native educ...
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Canadian Journal of Native Education
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v19i1.195556 https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/195556 |
| Summary: | Assuming that research, the creation of knowledge, influences local power and authority and may in fact contribute to changing power relationships between First Nations and non- First Nations peoples and institutions, is it a paradox for a non-Native researcher to enter a social arena— a Native education centre dedicated to Indian control o f Indian education— and to profess to contribute to the struggle for control, through research? In a retrospective on just such a research project, Haig-Brown conceptualizes her place in the struggle for Indian control as being on a border that demarcates a wider struggle related to land and to a First Nations definition of people's relationship to land. A subsidiary struggle is for recognition of the legitimacy of First Nations' conceptual ordering of research priorities and of First Nations voice in the articulation of research findings. Haig-Brown reviews the detail of research design, entry into the research "field," the nature of an ethnographer's relation ships ... : Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 19 No. 1 (1992) ... |
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