Research Is Ceremony : Indigenous Research Methods

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ISBN: 9781552662816 | 1552662810
Cover: Trade Paper
Copyright: 4/1/2009

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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.

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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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Research Is Ceremony : Indigenous Research Methods

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