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Imaginary Subjects: School Science, Indigenous Students, And Knowledge–Power Relations, Joanna Kidman, Eleanor Abrams, Hiria Mcrae
Imaginary Subjects: School Science, Indigenous Students, And Knowledge–Power Relations, Joanna Kidman, Eleanor Abrams, Hiria Mcrae
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
The perspectives of indigenous science learners in developed nations offer an important but frequently overlooked dimension to debates about the nature of science, the science curriculum, and calls from educators to make school science more culturally responsive or ‘relevant’ to students from indigenous or minority groups. In this paper the findings of a study conducted with indigenous Maori children between the ages of 10 and 12 years are discussed. The purpose of the study was to examine the ways that indigenous children in an urban school environment in New Zealand position themselves in relation to school science. Drawing on the …
Illuminating The Lived Experiences Of Research With Indigenous Communities, Catherine E. Burnette, Sara Sanders, Howard K. Butcher, Emily Matt Salois
Illuminating The Lived Experiences Of Research With Indigenous Communities, Catherine E. Burnette, Sara Sanders, Howard K. Butcher, Emily Matt Salois
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
The historical exploitation experienced by indigenous people in the United States has left a number of negative legacies, including dis- trust toward research. This distrust poses a barrier to progress made through culturally sensitive research. Given the complex history of research with indigenous groups, the purpose of this descriptive phenomenological study was to illuminate the lived experiences of both indigenous and non-indigenous researchers conducting cul- turally competent research with indigenous people. Interviews from 13 social science research experts revealed 6 underlying themes about their research with indigenous people, including respect and commitment, mutual trust, affirmation, harmony among multiple worldviews, responsibility, …