Continuing Collaborative Knowledge Production: Knowing when, where, how and why

• Published in: Journal of Intercultural Studies
• Main Author: Haig-Brown, Celia
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Journal of Intercultural Studies 2001
• Subjects: First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35989; https://doi.org/10.1080/07256860120037391

Postprint upload. This paper questions assumptions about conducting research based in programs developed to serve communities which have traditionally had restricted access to the university. Grounded in an off-campus Master of Education initiative, it raises a number of ethical considerations. The questions addressed are as follows. (1) When does one move to doing research on a project which has been a satisfactory collaboration between a university and a community? (2) How is an academic to think about a collaborative project which will not, or perhaps cannot, become a site of research? (3) Where, in the space between community members’ focus on the local/specific and an academic’s focus on the global/theoretical, is it appropriate to share what has been learned? (4) Why should members of a First Nations/Aboriginal community (read any traditionally excluded group) participate in a piece of research destined for the world of academe?