Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Lecturer
Tristan Kennedy
Contact via Email
6 First Walk W3A - 407
By Appointment
Bronwyn Carlson
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MRes
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
ABST302
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit provides students with the necessary skills to undertake research relating to Indigenous Australians in an ethical manner. The unit highlights the importance of clear and transparent research strategies and promotes outcomes that provide significant benefit to Indigenous communities. The importance of research partnerships and collaboration is explored in detail.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Participation | 30% | No | On-Going |
Book Review | 20% | No | Friday 16th September |
Annotated Bibliography | 10% | No | Friday 18th October |
Research Proposal | 40% | No | Friday 8th November |
Due: On-Going
Weighting: 30%
Active participation is expected of all students. A high grade in this task will be achieved by actively attending / accessing lectures and completing tutorial tasks each week.
The requirements will be further discussed in week one.
Due: Friday 16th September
Weighting: 20%
In this task you will select one Indigenous research methods text from a list provided. You will be required to do a short presentation in class and submit a written review.
The criteria and standards by which your work will be assessed will be available on the ilearn site.
LATE SUBMISSIONS LOSE ONE MARK PER DAY.
Due: Friday 18th October
Weighting: 10%
Your task here is to provide an annotated bibliography (no fewer than six scholarly sources) relevant to your intended research project.
LATE SUBMISSIONS LOSE ONE MARK PER DAY.
Due: Friday 8th November
Weighting: 40%
This assessment task requires you to develop a 3000 word research proposal. You will draw on your background research in the previous two assessment tasks.
Further information, including the criteria and standards by which your work will be assessed will be available in the iLearn site.
LATE SUBMISSIONS LOSE ONE MARK PER DAY.
Reading List
Week One
Moreton-Robinson, A., 2015, ‘Toward a new research agenda: Foucault, whiteness, and sovereignty’, The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty, University of Minnesota Press.
Nakata, M., et al., 2012, ‘Decolonial goals and pedagogies for Indigenous studies’, Decolonization: indigeneity, education & society, 1:1, pp. 120-140.
Week Two
Bin-Sallik, M., 2003, ‘Cultural Safety: Let’s Name it!’, Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 32, pp. 21-28.
Nakata, M., 2006, ‘Australian Indigenous Studies: A Question of Discipline’, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 17:3, pp. 265-275.
Wilson, S., 2001, ‘What is Indigenous Research Methodology?, Canadian Journal of Native Education, 25:2, pp. 175-179.
Week Three
Bessarab D., & Ngandu, B., 2010, ‘Yarning About Yarning as a Legitimate Method in Indigenous Research’, International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 3:1, pp. 37-50.
Foley, D., 2003, ‘Indigenous Epistemology and Indigenous Standpoint Theory’, Social Alternatives, 22:1, pp. 44-52.
Allen, C., 2007, ‘Rere Ke/Moving Differently: Indigenizing Methodologies for Comparative Indigenous Literary Studies’, Journal of New Zealand Literature, 24:2, pp. 1-26.
Week Four
Tuhiwai Smith, L., 2012, ‘Towards Developing Indigenous Methodologies: Kaupapa Maori Research’ in Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies, Zed Books, New York, pp. 297-314.
Harkin, N., 2017, ‘On Responsibility’, Overland, 226, 51.
Henderson, R., Simmons, D. S., Bourke, L., & Muir, J. 2002, ‘Development of guidelines for non-Indigenous people undertaking research among the Indigenous population of north-east Victoria, Medical Journal of Australia, 176:10, pp. 482-485.
Week Five
Book Review Readings
Week Six
Book Review Readings
Week Seven
Deborah McGregor. "Coming full circle: Indigenous knowledge, environment, and our future." American Indian Quarterly. 28.3/4: 2004.
Czaykowska-Higgins, E., ‘Research models, community engagement, and linguistic fieldwork: Reflections on working within Canadian Indigenous communities’, Language Documentation & Conservation, 3:1, pp. 15-50.
Week Eight
Kavelin, C., 2008, ‘Universities as the Gatekeepers of the Intellectual Property of Indigenous People's Medical Knowledge’, The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 37, pp. 34-45.
Ball, J., & Janyst, P., 2008, ‘Enacting research ethics in partnerships with indigenous communities in Canada: “Do it in a good way”, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 3:2, pp. 33-51.
Week Nine
TBC – Research Proposal Readings
Week Ten
TBC – Research Proposal Readings
Week Eleven
Reilly, M., 2011, 'Māori Studies, Past and Present: A Review', The Contemporary Pacific, 23:2, pp. 340-370.
Warrior, R., 2009. ‘Native American Scholarship and the transnational turn’, Cultural Studies Review, 15:2, pp. 119-131.
Hitchcock, R., 2002, ‘Repatriation, indigenous peoples, and development lessons from Africa, North America, and Australia, Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, 15:1, pp. 57-66.
Book Review Readings
Martin, K., 2008, Please Knock Before You Enter: Aboriginal regulation of outsiders and the implications for researchers, Post Pressed: Teneriffe, QLD.
Nakata, M., 2007, Disciplining the savages, savaging the disciplines, Aboriginal Studies Press: Canberra, ACT.
Wilson, S., 2008, Research is Ceremony: indigenous research methods, Fernwood Publishing: Black Point, N.S.
Tuhiwai Smith, L., 2012, Decolonizing Methodologies: research and indigenous peoples, Zed Books: New York.
Castejon, V., K. Hughes, O. Haag, & A. Cole, 2014, Ngapatji Ngapatji: In turn, in turn: Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia, ANU Press: Canberra.
Extra Readings
Andersen, C., 2009, ‘Critical Indigenous Studies: From difference to density’, Cultural Studies Review, 15:2, pp. 80-100.
Rigney, L., 1999, ‘Internationalization of an Indigenous Anticolonial Cultural Critique of Research Methodologies: A Guide to Indigenist Research Methodology and Its Principles, Wicazo Sa Review, 14:2, pp.109-121.
Porsanger, J., 2004, ‘An Essay about Indigenous Methodology’, Nordlit : Tidsskrift i litteraturog kultur, 8:1, pp. 105-120.
Weekly Schedule ABST721
Lecture 1 1st August |
Overview of unit and Introduction |
Lecture 2 8th August |
Indigenous Studies as a Discipline |
Lecture 3 15th August |
Indigenous Studies Methodologies |
Lecture 4 22nd August |
Indigenous Studies Researchers |
Lecture 5 29th August |
Reading Week (No Lecture) |
Lecture 6 5th September |
Book Review Discussion Research Proposals |
Lecture 7 12th September |
Engaging Widely: Indigenous Research and Communities |
Mid-Semester Break
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Lecture 8 3rd October |
Indigenous Research Ethics and Dissemination |
Lecture 9 10th October |
Guest Lecture TBC |
Lecture 10 17th October |
Guest Lecture TBC |
Lecture11 24th October |
International Approaches |
Lecture 12 31st October |
Research Proposal Workshop |
Lecture 13 7th November |
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