Practice led research: an Indigenous academic pathway?
This paper works towards alerting the academy itself that scholarship needs to be less resistant to ways of knowing that come from another cultural background and, more importantly, to understand what richness such knowledge structures bring to scholarship. In this paper I consider action research m...
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International Journal of Research in Education and Psychology
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/419200 http://ijrep.com |
| Summary: | This paper works towards alerting the academy itself that scholarship needs to be less resistant to ways of knowing that come from another cultural background and, more importantly, to understand what richness such knowledge structures bring to scholarship. In this paper I consider action research methodology and practice it so as to unpeel the connections between First Nations people in Canada and Australian Indigenous scholarship. This paper illuminates the possibilities inherent in developing the nature of the border crossing between Indigenous knowledge models and current academic constructions so that it is not one way. That is, dominated by euro western models. It is the scholarly conversation about this delicate balance and tension that this paper identifies and enters into, proposing that postgraduate level yet uncredentialed students as well as those with academic credentials can both enter Western knowledge systems and retain their own cultural modes of developing knowledge within them through practice led/based research (PLR). |
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