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The challenge of western-influenced notions of knowledge and research training: lessons for decolonizing the research process and researcher education.
- Source :
- Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work; 2024, Vol. 33 Issue 5, p276-287, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- In this paper, based on fieldwork experiences in Ethiopia, we have taken an African and Indigenous perspective to highlight and critically reflect on how Western notions of knowledge and research training for social work sometimes fail to engage meaningfully with local realities and disregard cultural and religious practices. This paper argues, from an Ethiopian and African perspective, for culturally appropriate research training. It proposes this can be achieved by making researcher training curricula more inclusive, by reassessing funding flows, and for research supervisors to foster critical reflexivity in their students, reminding them that cultural histories and geographies of research participants are central to the research process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- AFRICANS
CULTURAL awareness
SUPERVISION of employees
SOCIAL workers
DIVERSITY & inclusion policies
PROFESSIONAL ethics
FIELDWORK (Educational method)
INDIGENOUS peoples
HUMAN research subjects
CULTURE
RESPONSIBILITY
SOCIAL worker attitudes
REFLECTION (Philosophy)
SOCIAL work education
PROFESSIONS
SOCIAL work research
DECOLONIZATION
STUDENTS
ENDOWMENT of research
SOCIAL boundaries
PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15313204
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 179805546
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15313204.2023.2197272