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Question 1

Indigenous Research Methodology: What is the main research approach?

Answer 1

Is it a decolonization of Western-based methodologies?

Or

An indigenous -knowledge centered research approach

Question 2

Where is the West? What is the West?

Answer 2

• Not geographical
  A Hierarchically driven politically, culturally, and economically based project given to colonialism
• Hesse (2002)
  (African Sociologist)

Question 3

What is validity?

Question 4

Academic Discourse vs Indigenous Research Methodologies

Answer 4

Difficulty getting Indig. Groups involved in conduction research
- “Research” belongs to a western paradigm

Question 5

Can a continent like Africa originate evaluation practices and theories rooted in an African worldview and paradigm? (Chilisa)

Answer 5

Africa too diverse to constitute monolithic worldview.
Each local context should be honored and valued… not some mythical generic [African] perspective.
- Chilisa (2013)

Question 6

Who developed the concept of “the captive mind” and what does it entail?

Answer 6

Uncritical imitation of Western research paradigm within academia. — Colonization of the mind

Syed Hussein Alatas (2004) Malaysian

Question 7

What are the Four Research Paradigms?

Answer 7

1. Positivist-postpositivist Paradigm
2. Interpretive/Constructivist
3. Transformative
4. Pragmatic

Question 8

What is Indigenous Research Methodologies defined as?

Answer 8

Family that draws from Indigenous Knowledge, histories, worldviews, experiences etc…

to critique mainstream methodologies,
decolonize and indiginize mainstream methodologies,
Claiming space for a 5th [IRM] paradigm

Question 9

What are some characteristics of Indigenous Research?

Answer 9

• Participatory, targets local phenomenon instead of using existing Western theory to identify and define a research q
• Context sensitive - uses local experiences and IK
• Can be integrative combining both Western and Indig. Theories
• Most advanced form - assumptions about reality, knowledge, values, etc informed by a post-colonial research paradigm

Question 10

What are some parts of Indigenous World View?

Answer 10

Relational Ontology
Relational Epistomology
Relational Axiology
Cosmology: Connectedness and interdependence of all things in Universe
Teleological Assumption: Things don’t just happen… Research and projects have intended goals

Question 11

What are some ontological assumptions with IRM?

Answer 11

• Consist of socially constructed realities shaped by relationships humans have with environment, cosmos, living, and non living.
• Emphasis on I/WE relationship vs western I/You
• Captured under prevailing shared, collective, human unity pluralists philosophy…
  Reality implies a set of relationships

Question 12

Compare and Contrast western vs indigenous relationships.

Answer 12

I/You (Western)
- Relationships in hierarchy
- Guided by individualism
- Person is measure of things… no supernatural

I/We (Indigenous)
- Relations multiple and interconnected
- Guided by respect - for self, others, community, nature in general
- Applied across belief systems… cosmos (?)

Question 13

What is relational epistomology?

Answer 13

• Knowledge is relational
• Know oneself before others
• Web of connections inform what is known and how
• Coming to know means capturing lived realities of post colonial communities with all their cultural.. and goals and aspirations

Question 14

Axiology

Answer 14

• Requires researcher reflexivity by I/We
• Ethical protocols draw from cultural practices informed by connectedness and web of relationships (living and non)

Question 15

Indigenous Ethics: Consents

Answer 15

Individual Consent - Appreciation of the individual
Community Consent - Research part of a complex whole
•Group consent, Family consent - Research to maintain harmony and balance of any group
Collective Consent - Respect for heritage

Question 16

3 R’s

Answer 16

Respect
Responsibility
Reciprocation
(4- Relationships)