Mis/uses of Indigenous Methodologies in International Research on Indigenous Family and Community Engagement

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Eight
  In Roundtable Session: Equity-Centered Considerations When Partnering With Diverse Communities (Table 18)

Abstract

Indigenous research methodologies have been theorized by renowned Indigenous scholars over the past few decades and advocated for in research focused on Indigenous communities for its emancipatory power to reestablish Indigenous peoples self-determining and sovereignty rights over education and research (Brayboy et al., 2012, Smith, 2021). Indigenous research methodologies disrupt extractive, exploitative, and pathologizing research practices against and portrayals of Indigenous communities. This paper introduces an Indigenous Methodological Framework that we use to explore uses (and misuses) of Indigenous methodologies in a growing body of international research literature about Indigenous family and community engagement. Further, we critically review these studies to determine if they contribute to more culturally expansive and/or desire-based conceptualizations of Indigenous families and communities.

Authors

• Shanee A. Washington, University of Washington
  Presenting Author

• Lauri Johnson, Boston College
  Presenting Author

• Kayla Mendoza Chui, University of Washington
  Non-Presenting Author