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dc.contributor.authorRitchie, Jenny
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-28T22:09:57Z
dc.date.available2015-09-28T22:09:57Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10652/3042
dc.description.abstractResearchers have been challenged by Indigenous scholars regarding the ongoing re-inscription of colonialist paradigms inflicted through research methodologies and later perpetuated through published work (L. T. Smith, 1999/2012). Within both education and educational research, “repressive structures of colonialism operate through an invisible network of filiative connections, psychological internalizations and unconsciously complicit associations” (Kaomea, 2004, p. 22). Throughout the eras of both colonisation and modernity Indigenous knowledges have been marginalised by the academy, rendered invisible, dismissed as inferior, and relegated to the status of historical relics. The education system in Aotearoa (New Zealand), like many other countries colonised by Great Britain, has explained Māori underachievement as being the result of the ‘deficit’ of Māori, rather than of the educational experiences that were provided for them. These ‘deficit theories’ “can be traced back to nineteenth-century ‘scientific racism’, which was itself a development of – and justification for – imperialism and colonialism” (Human Rights Commission, 2012, p. 15). Māori academics in Aotearoa (New Zealand) have been cautious about ‘post-’ modern/structural/colonial paradigms, considering that more work is needed than mere neo-colonialist re-languaging of imperialism (Pihama, 1993; L. T. Smith, 1999/2012). “Decolonization, once viewed as the formal process of handing over the instruments of government, is now recognized as a long-term process involving the bureaucratic, cultural, linguistic and psychological divesting of colonial power” (Pihama, 1993, p.98). It is all too easy for researchers to ignore the underlying impacts of the legacy of colonisation and its discourse of Māori as ‘deficit’ within their research contexts, thus inadvertently perpetuating these effects. In Aotearoa, some Indigenous and Pākehā (European ancestry) educational researchers have worked collaboratively to illuminate decolonising possibilities (Bishop & Glynn, 1999; Jones & Jenkins, 2008; Rau & Ritchie, 2014; Ritchie & Rau, 2010, 2012). This methodology has been described as ‘partnership research’ which “involves both indigenous and non-indigenous researchers working on a research project and shaping that project together” (Smith, 1999, p. 178). This paper reflects on some of the aspects, issues, and tensions arising from a series of research projects within the field of early childhood care and education which upheld a commitment to counter-colonial praxis.en_NZ
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.rightsAll rights reserveden_NZ
dc.subjectcolonialismen_NZ
dc.subjectpost-colonialismen_NZ
dc.subjectracismen_NZ
dc.subjectcounter colonialismen_NZ
dc.subjectresearchen_NZ
dc.subjectTreaty of Waitangi (1840)en_NZ
dc.titleCounter-colonial research methodologies drawing upon postcolonial critique and Indigenous onto-epistemologies.en_NZ
dc.typeConference Contribution - Oral Presentationen_NZ
dc.rights.holderThe Authoren_NZ
dc.subject.marsden160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methodsen_NZ
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRitchie, J. (2014). Counter-colonial research methodologies drawing upon postcolonial critique and Indigenous onto-epistemologies. Paper presented at 10th Annual Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 21st-24th.en_NZ
unitec.institutionUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
unitec.publication.spage1en_NZ
unitec.publication.lpage9en_NZ
unitec.conference.title10th Annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiryen_NZ
unitec.conference.orgInternational Institute of Qualitative Inquiryen_NZ
unitec.conference.locationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignen_NZ
unitec.conference.sdate2014-05-21
unitec.conference.edate2014-05-24
unitec.peerreviewedyesen_NZ
dc.contributor.affiliationUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
unitec.identifier.roms56189en_NZ
dc.subject.tukutukuTiriti o Waitangimi_NZ
dc.subject.tukutukuTaipūwhenuatangami_NZ
dc.subject.tukutukuWhakahāwea iwimi_NZ
dc.subject.tukutukuRangahau Māorimi_NZ
dc.subject.tukutukuKaupapa rangahaumi_NZ
unitec.institution.studyareaEducation


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