Ethical Relationality and Indigenous Storywork Principles as Methodology: Addressing Settler-Colonial Divides in Inner-City Educational Research

Kerr, Jeannie; Ferguson, Katya Adamov

doi:10.1177/1077800420971864

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“…We must reconsider how our research and its effects genuinely support Indigenous peoples and the environment through shared obligations and mutual benefit. Indigenous research methodologies make explicit these relational priorities and ethical concerns (Kerr & Adamov Ferguson, 2020).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Potential and Pitfalls: Settler Scholar Engagement in Indigenous Research

Panofsky

Hartwick²,

Buchanan

2023

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article explores the potential and pitfalls of approaching Indigenous research as settler scholars in an attempt to redress the intergenerational damage of colonization on Indigenous culture and to contribute to a process of healing. We consider Indigenous historical trauma and survivance, and their intersections with Western psychological models and Western research paradigms. We then work with the principles of Indigenous Storywork (Archibald, 2008) to consider our own complex engagement in Indigenous research to bring to light how a profound commitment to relational ways of knowing and being are required elements of culturally appropriate and culturally safe psychological research.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Potential and Pitfalls: Settler Scholar Engagement in Indigenous Research

Panofsky

Hartwick²,

Buchanan

2023

Qualitative Inquiry

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“…Our team recognizes the limitations that we carry as a team of predominantly western-trained researchers and health care providers. We acknowledge that this study was initially conceptualized through a Eurocentric lens and that Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous relationality philosophy [ 72 , 73 ] are strong systems that predate network and KT theory. We commit to being open to changes in process and protocol that will enhance the safety, relevance, and impact of this work for Indigenous families.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Connecting for Care: a protocol for a mixed-method social network analysis to advance knowledge translation in the field of child development and rehabilitation

Glegg

Costello

Barnaby³

et al. 2022

Implement Sci Commun

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Background Connections between individuals and organizations can impact knowledge translation (KT). This finding has led to growing interest in the study of social networks as drivers of KT. Social networks are formed by the patterns of relationships or connections generated through interactions. These connections can be studied using social network analysis (SNA) methodologies. The relatively small yet diverse community in the field of child development and rehabilitation (CD&R) in Canada offers an ideal case study for applying SNA. The purposes of this work are to (1) quantify and map the structure of Canadian CD&R KT networks among four groups: families, health care providers, KT support personnel, and researchers; (2) explore participant perspectives of the network structure and of KT barriers and facilitators within it; and (3) generate recommendations to improve KT capacity within and between groups. Aligning with the principles of integrated KT, we have assembled a national team whose members contribute throughout the research and KT process, with representation from the four participant groups. Methods A sequential, explanatory mixed-method study, within the bounds of a national case study in the field of CD&R. Objective 1: A national SNA survey of family members with advocacy/partnership experience, health care providers, KT support personnel, and researchers, paired with an anonymous survey for family member without partnership experience, will gather data to describe the KT networks within and between groups and identify barriers and facilitators of network connections. Objective 2: Purposive sampling from Phase 1 will identify semi-structured interview participants with whom to examine conventional and network-driven KT barriers, facilitators, and mitigating strategies. Objective 3: Intervention mapping and a Delphi process will generate recommendations for network and conventional interventions to strengthen the network and facilitate KT. Discussion This study will integrate network and KT theory in mapping the structure of the CD&R KT network, enhance our understanding of conventional and network-focused KT barriers and facilitators, and provide recommendations to strengthen KT networks. Recommendations can be applied and tested within the field of CD&R to improve KT, with the aim of ensuring children achieve the best health outcomes possible through timely access to effective healthcare.

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“…As a research assistant in 2019, I walked and researched alongside settler scholar Dr. Jeannie Kerr. We engaged in walking analyses in significant places in Winnipeg, including the Forks location which led to metaphorical findings, including the River as a teacher (Kerr & Ferguson, 2020;Kerr & Ferguson, 2021). Through this experience, informed by Donald's concept of ethical relationality (Donald, 2009(Donald, , 2012(Donald, , 2016, "we were taught by land and place and the participants' words" (Kerr & Ferguson, 2020, p. 6).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework and Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This experience helped us to listen and learn in ways that evoked a "felt sense of the divisions and violences here and within ourselves" (Kerr & Ferguson, 2020, p. 6). I became more attuned to how the stories of landscapes and waterscapes guided my thinking and how our analysis also became haunted by the horrific reality of Tina Fontaine's body being pulled from this river location (Kerr & Ferguson, 2020;. Tina Fontaine's story also confronts another connected issue-the over-representation of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit children in Manitoba's child welfare system (Manitoba Legislative Review Committee, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Murky Waters: An Arts-Based Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls

Ferguson

2022

CJAR

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The Forks in Winnipeg, Manitoba is the central site of this study which un/covers the potentialities of combining critical place inquiries and a/r/tography to mobilize Calls for Justice and education around displacement and disappearance of Indigenous Women and Girls. This study reflects part of my doctoral research which connects living, action-oriented inquiries utilizing earth-based art/works as public provocations. In this contribution, I share how my artistic process of encircling the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) monument with an intricate soil spiral and my encounters with women’s stories and educational resources from the National Inquiry have uncovered complexities of the ongoing disappearance and erasure of women. The discourses embedded in place reveal strong connections to settler colonial forces and have drawn attention to the role of the arts in supporting commemoration and reclaiming discourses of power and place. This action-oriented approach aims to find ways to bring important topics around MMIWG into curricular discussions. This study inspired action steps for advancing the Calls for Justice, including the design of walking professional learning experiences for teachers. The study shows how the place at the Forks functions as a framework inspired by the layered histories and geographies of this significant location.

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Ethical Relationality and Indigenous Storywork Principles as Methodology: Addressing Settler-Colonial Divides in Inner-City Educational Research

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Potential and Pitfalls: Settler Scholar Engagement in Indigenous Research

Potential and Pitfalls: Settler Scholar Engagement in Indigenous Research

Connecting for Care: a protocol for a mixed-method social network analysis to advance knowledge translation in the field of child development and rehabilitation

Murky Waters: An Arts-Based Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls

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