Identifying the Evaluative Impulse in Local Culture

Easton, Peter

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“…They can form sound theoretical frameworks that move away from conceiving the researched as participants to seeing them as co-researchers with authentic literature about their communities. Proverbs and languages as theoretical frameworks is now a common practice with research that has decolonisation intent (Chilisa, 2012; Chilisa et al, 2016; Easton, 2008).…”

Section: Deconstructing Re-constructing and Transforming Identities mentioning

confidence: 99%

Community engagement with a postcolonial, African-based relational paradigm

Chilisa

Major

Khudu-Petersen

2017

Qualitative Research

108

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The article engages with debates on democratizing and decolonizing research to promote multi-epistemological research partnerships that revolutionize the research methods landscape, bringing new paradigms onto the map to advance new research methods that engage and transform communities. The argument in the article is that people of all worlds irrespective of geographic location, colour, race, ability, gender or socioeconomic status should have equal rights in the research scholarship and research process to name their world views, apply them to define themselves and be heard. An African-based relational paradigm that informs a postcolonial research methodological framework within which indigenous and non-indigenous researchers can fit their research is presented. The article further illustrates how an African relational ontological assumption can inform a complimentary technique of gathering biographical data on the participants and how African relational epistemologies can inform partnership of knowledge systems. The use of proverbs and songs as indigenous literature and community voices that researchers can use to deconstruct stereotypes and deficit theorizing and communityconstructed ideologies of dominance is illustrated.

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Section: Deconstructing Re-constructing and Transforming Identities mentioning

confidence: 99%

Community engagement with a postcolonial, African-based relational paradigm

Chilisa

Major

Khudu-Petersen

2017

Qualitative Research

108

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“…Decolonisation and indigenisation of evaluation systems can also be achieved by creating evaluation models based on IKSs. The creation of evaluation models based on IKS can include the African Proverbs-based approach suggested by Easton (2012). Proverbs tend to seek causal factors of phenomena, beneath obvious appearances (Easton, 2012).…”

Section: The Role Of Indigenous Knowledge Systems In the Made In Afri...mentioning

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“…The creation of evaluation models based on IKS can include the African Proverbs-based approach suggested by Easton (2012). Proverbs tend to seek causal factors of phenomena, beneath obvious appearances (Easton, 2012). This makes African proverbs to be inherently evaluative given that they are driven by the urge to understand causality of phenomena.…”

Section: The Role Of Indigenous Knowledge Systems In the Made In Afri...mentioning

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Decolonising and indigenising evaluation practice in Africa: Roadmap for mainstreaming the Made in Africa Evaluation approach

2022

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Objectives: This article endeavours to provide recommendations on how to make the Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) paradigm practical (applicable) for evaluators in Africa, based on decolonisation and indigenisation methodological prescriptions. Method:The study is qualitative by design, employing document analysis and the authors' observation on development and evaluation practice in Africa and globally. Results:The emergent practice of evaluation is only experiencing decolonial scrutiny in the 21st century. In the African context, the MAE paradigm appears to be the continent's decolonisation and indigenisation project for the evaluation fraternity. Conclusion:Building an Afrocentric, decolonised and indigenous MAE paradigm and approach requires a coordinated effort on building scholarship on the topic of MAE approaches and methodologies. Once there is sufficient documentation of the MAE approach, it should become easier to advance Afrocentric evaluation as mainstream discourse alongside the more established and neoliberal development and evaluation discourse.

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“…She argues, rightly, that folk stories provide a valuable source of knowledge – perhaps as much as published information. Further, Easton (2012) has recently argued that the use of proverbs in West Africa is valid in an evaluative context, noting that, ‘the explicit message and latent meanings of a set of chosen proverbs suggests that the cultures in question are rich in evaluative perspectives’ (p. 515). Further, as readers of the stories, Riessman (2001) reminds us that storytelling is a relational activity: a collaborative practice.…”

Section: Self-knowledge and Storymentioning

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Ancestors and the Politics of Reality: Housing, Home and Belonging in Postcolonizing Australia

Mackenzie

Mwamba²,

Mphande

2016

Critical Sociology

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Australian settlement policy has stressed social cohesion for new refugee-background migrants, including the importance of integration into rental housing. The authors argue that the transitory nature of rental property is an obstacle for many migrants of African background, for it is the inability to have land on which to plant a tree, that there is non-belonging. For spiritual continuity, and in order for connection to the living-dead ancestors to be real, it is critical to have a home and land. Through the use of story and proverb, the article argues that Congolese ways of knowing the non-material world offer a point of radical departure from Western ways of knowing and experiencing belonging to place, particularly in the post-colonial context of Australia, where belonging has become inimically tied to possession of a home and land. Further, the authors argue that the decisions as to what is known are embedded in questions of power.

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Identifying the Evaluative Impulse in Local Culture

Cited by 19 publications

References 46 publications

Community engagement with a postcolonial, African-based relational paradigm

Community engagement with a postcolonial, African-based relational paradigm

Decolonising and indigenising evaluation practice in Africa: Roadmap for mainstreaming the Made in Africa Evaluation approach

Ancestors and the Politics of Reality: Housing, Home and Belonging in Postcolonizing Australia

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