The dancing trope of cross-cultural language education policy
The dancing trope of cross-cultural language education policy
Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts [Special Issue: Ethical relationships, ethical research in Aboriginal contexts: Perspectives from central Australia]
- Author(s): Oldfield, Janine, Forrester, Vincent
- Published: 2018
- Volume: 23
Abstract: The language education policy research based on the views of remote Indigenous communities that is the subject of this paper involved a complex metaphoric dance but one centred on the lead of Aboriginal collaborative research participants. The researchers in this dance, fortunately, had enough experience in traditional Aboriginal decision-making processes and so knew the tilts and sways that ensured the emergence of a reliable picture of remote Indigenous knowledge authority. However, as with most Indigenous research, the de-colonisation process and the use of Indigenous research methods hit a misstep when it came to the academy’s ethical procedures and institutional gatekeeping. This almost led to a position from which the research would not recover and from which a contentious but important Indigenous topic on Indigenous language education remained unvoiced.
- Urls: https://www.cdu.edu.au/sites/default/files/the-northern-institute/docs/10.18793-lcj2018.23.06.pdf
- Keywords: Decolonising research, Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous research methods, culturally responsive research