Abstract
In our current work, we have begun the creation of an international network of communities who are marginalised from the dominant their historical, economic, and sociopolitical institutions. These communities not only include Indigenous groups but also Deaf and Hard of Hearing, refugees, and those who might be suffering persecution in their own countries of origin. The long-term goal of the ‘Decolonisation of Digital Learning Spaces’ project is to empower communities in choosing, adopting, developing, and/or appropriating culturally appropriate and sustainable digital learning technologies. We must first know what questions to ask and how to ask. Our energies are focused on research methods. We are developing research tools and techniques and how to review, supplement and/or replace mainly white-Western European tools and techniques with ones hopefully more appropriate, efficient, and innovative approaches to better understand community needs and values. Selected methods must allow the researchers to step outside their own pre-conceived understandings to avoid dominating or imposing meaning upon the participants’ understandings. This paper describes the preliminary planning of the research project in creating an international network of community members, activists, and researchers, and in identifying and testing methods for eliciting needs, values, and ways of understanding the world. In this study, we describe 1) the goals and concerns that were the impetus for the project, 2) the nascent network, 3) potential knowledge elicitation methods, and 4) the repeated single-criterion card sort method as the first of several method that we are piloting.
Presenters
John TraxlerProfessor, School of Education, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Shri Footring
Senior Consultant, Digital Learning Research Ltd, United Kingdom Marguerite Koole
Associate Professor, Educational Technology and Design, Collge of Education, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2022 Special Focus: Intercultural Learning in Plurilingual Contexts
KEYWORDS
Indigenous/marginal cultures, Decolonising Research Methods; Card-sorts
