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Freeing Ourselves from Neo-Colonial Domination in Research

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The challenges for Māori researchers have been to retrieve some space as mentioned in this paper, some space to convince Māore people of the value of research for More, to convince the various, fragmented but powerful research communities of the need for greater More involvement in research; and to develop approaches and ways of carrying out research which take into account, without being limited by, the legacies of previous research, and the parameters of both previous and current approaches.
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One of the challenges for Māori researchers… has been to retrieve some spacefirst, some space to convince Māori people of the value of research for Māori; second, to convince the various, fragmented but powerful research communities of the need for greater Māori involvement in research; and third, to develop approaches and ways of carrying out research which take into account, without being limited by, the legacies of previous research, and the parameters of both previous and current approaches.

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Te Kotahitanga: Addressing educational disparities facing Māori students in New Zealand

TL;DR: Te Kotahitanga as mentioned in this paper is a research and professional development project that seeks to improve the educational achievement of Māori students in mainstream secondary schools in New Zealand by identifying various discursive positions related to student learning and creating an effective teaching profile.
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Storytelling in a digital age: digital storytelling as an emerging narrative method for preserving and promoting indigenous oral wisdom:

TL;DR: In this paper, a transdisciplinary team of indigenous and non-indigenous individuals came together in early 2009 to develop a digital narrative method to engage a remote community in northern Labrador in a research project examining the linkages between climate change and physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being.
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A Toolkit for Ethical and Culturally Sensitive Research: An Application with Indigenous Communities

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative study with 13 indigenous and non-indigenous researchers was conducted to identify strategies for cultural sensitivity in research with an indigenous community in the USA and apply these strategies to a rigorous critical ethnography with indigenous communities.
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Mixing methods as a process towards indigenous methodologies

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed-method approach is proposed for the expansion of indigenous research to reflect some of the distinctive epistemological aspects of indigenous ways of knowing, and this mixed method strategy is framed within the cultural-historic activity theory principles of expansive learning so that the incremental development of practical, philosophical and value-appropriate indigenous research methods is driven by the change seeking activity generated by contradictory dimensions.
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The Centrality of Relationships for Pedagogy: The Whanaungatanga Thesis

TL;DR: Te Kotahitanga as discussed by the authors is a research and professional development project that seeks to reduce educational disparities between indigenous Māori students and their non-Māori peers in New Zealand secondary schools.
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