This course centers the work of Indigenous scholars, from this continent and internationally, regarding research in general and research that concerns Indigenous peoples in particular. Decentering dominant paradigms of research methodologies and theoretical perspectives, this scholarship disrupts perspectives on Indigenous peoples’ knowledge and ways of knowing. It critically challenges problematic truths and other powerful ideas that have contributed to the dispossession and marginalization of First Nations' Peoples. In challenging enculturated perspectives, positions and framing of knowledge, this course explores the possibilities of decolonizing research, recognizes the relevance of Indigenous perspectives in every sphere of knowledge and practice, and looks to the possibility of bringing First Peoples' ways of knowing into the academy. Repudiating deficit accounts of First Peoples, students are encouraged to reflect on more respectful and ethical engagement with (and between) Indigenous peoples, knowledge and ways of knowing, and to explore and innovate research premised on strength-based perspectives that recognize the resilience, capability, self- determination, and resurgence of Indigenous Peoples.
Anticipated Credit Equivalencies:
4 - Educational Research Methodology
4 - Decolonizing Research Methodologies