Challenges of Non-Indigenous Researchers in Indigenous Contexts
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https://doi.org/10.53103/cjess.v3i4.157Keywords:
Indigenous Peoples, Non-Indigenous Researchers, Methodologies, Indigeneity, Relational KnowledgeAbstract
Indigenous peoples have been historically othered by non-Indigenous researchers who used to devalue their ways of being, undermine their worldviews, and send their children to residential schools to be deculturated from their Indigeneity. As a result, a mistrust has been created among Indigenous communities towards non-Indigenous research and its lack of consent from their participants. This, however, has been changing, and researchers increasingly explore other ways of knowing in higher education and establish their research from the lens of their Indigenous participants. Although it is the right path to take, there are challenges that non-Indigenous scholars encounter when they conduct research in such contexts. This paper aims to highlight such challenges and groups them under research methodologies, worldviews, and participants in the hopes of helping like-minded researchers keen on exploring other ways of knowing.
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