Exploring whakaaro: A way of responsive thinking in Maori research
| Autor: | Kim Southey, Carl Mika |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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05 social sciences 050401 social sciences methods 050301 education Metaphysics Metacognition Creativity Education Epistemology 0504 sociology History and Philosophy of Science Pedagogy Well-being Pacific islanders Sociology Western culture Philosophy of education Traditional knowledge 0503 education media_common |
| Zdroj: | Educational Philosophy and Theory. 50:795-803 |
| ISSN: | 1469-5812 0013-1857 |
| Popis: | The experience of researching as a Māori student within academia will often raise questions about how and whether the student’s research privileges Māori world views and articulates culturally specific epistemologies. This study offers some theorising, from the perspectives of a Maori doctoral student and her Maori supervisor (the authors of this study), on the metaphysical nature of research for Maori. It emphasises that there is a space for speculative, creative and responsive thinking as a central method in the student’s doctoral research and describes how access to free thinking has been only partly recognised in currently dominant methods of research. We describe this approach as ‘whakaaro’, and note its relationship to language itself, to the researcher and the interviewee, and in particular to the researcher’s intuitive and largely unknowable response to what an interviewee utters. In that act, the student envisages that she will expansively hint at (but not pretend to grasp) the deep expre... |
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