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ABST721 – Research Ethics in Indigenous Australian Contexts
2018 – S2 Day
General Information
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| 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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Important Academic Dates
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Recognise the historical legacies of research and subsequent effects on research practices with Indigenous peoples today.
- Justify your role as an Indigenous or non-Indigenous researcher or practitioner undertaking research or work with Indigenous communities.
- Explain the principles of a range of Indigenous Research Methodologies appropriate for application in research with Indigenous peoples
- Apply appropriate Indigenous Studies theoretical frameworks to resolve a range of ethical problems in Indigenous research.
- Critically reflect on current issues in Indigenous affairs and develop a proposal for small research project to address the problem.
- Interpret and communicate the principles of current Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies guidelines to Indigenous community and professional audiences.
Assessment Tasks
| Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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| Participation | 20% | No | On-Going |
| Book Review | 20% | No | Friday 31st August |
| Annotated Bibliography | 20% | No | Friday 14th September |
| Research Proposal | 40% | No | Friday 9th November |
Participation
Due: On-Going
Weighting: 20%
Active participation in class and online is expected of all participants. A high grade in this task will be achieved by actively engaging with the topic material online (quizzes, discussion board, readings) and in our class sessions.
The requirements will be further discussed in week one.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Recognise the historical legacies of research and subsequent effects on research practices with Indigenous peoples today.
- Critically reflect on current issues in Indigenous affairs and develop a proposal for small research project to address the problem.
- Interpret and communicate the principles of current Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies guidelines to Indigenous community and professional audiences.
Book Review
Due: Friday 31st August
Weighting: 20%
In this task you will self-select one academic text from the topic material that is relevant to your research project.
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.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Recognise the historical legacies of research and subsequent effects on research practices with Indigenous peoples today.
- Critically reflect on current issues in Indigenous affairs and develop a proposal for small research project to address the problem.
Annotated Bibliography
Due: Friday 14th September
Weighting: 20%
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.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Recognise the historical legacies of research and subsequent effects on research practices with Indigenous peoples today.
- Justify your role as an Indigenous or non-Indigenous researcher or practitioner undertaking research or work with Indigenous communities.
- Explain the principles of a range of Indigenous Research Methodologies appropriate for application in research with Indigenous peoples
- Apply appropriate Indigenous Studies theoretical frameworks to resolve a range of ethical problems in Indigenous research.
- Critically reflect on current issues in Indigenous affairs and develop a proposal for small research project to address the problem.
Research Proposal
Due: Friday 9th November
Weighting: 40%
This assessment task requires you to develop a 4000 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.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Recognise the historical legacies of research and subsequent effects on research practices with Indigenous peoples today.
- Justify your role as an Indigenous or non-Indigenous researcher or practitioner undertaking research or work with Indigenous communities.
- Explain the principles of a range of Indigenous Research Methodologies appropriate for application in research with Indigenous peoples
- Apply appropriate Indigenous Studies theoretical frameworks to resolve a range of ethical problems in Indigenous research.
- Critically reflect on current issues in Indigenous affairs and develop a proposal for small research project to address the problem.
- Interpret and communicate the principles of current Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies guidelines to Indigenous community and professional audiences.
Delivery and Resources
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.
Unit Schedule
Weekly Schedule ABST721
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Lecture 1 1st August |
Overview of unit and Introduction |
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Lecture 2 8th August |
Indigenous Studies as a Discipline |
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Lecture 3 15th August |
Indigenous Studies Methodologies |
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Lecture 4 22nd August |
Indigenous Studies Researchers |
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Lecture 5 29th August |
Reading Week (No Lecture) |
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Lecture 6 5th September |
Book Review Discussion Research Proposals |
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Lecture 7 12th September |
Engaging Widely: Indigenous Research and Communities |
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Mid-Semester Break
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Lecture 8 3rd October |
Indigenous Research Ethics and Dissemination |
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Lecture 9 10th October |
Guest Lecture TBC |
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Lecture 10 17th October |
Guest Lecture TBC |
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Lecture11 24th October |
International Approaches |
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Lecture 12 31st October |
Research Proposal Workshop |
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Lecture 13 7th November |
Reflection and Feedback |
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Graduate Capabilities
PG - Capable of Professional and Personal Judgment and Initiative
Our postgraduates will demonstrate a high standard of discernment and common sense in their professional and personal judgment. They will have the ability to make informed choices and decisions that reflect both the nature of their professional work and their personal perspectives.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Justify your role as an Indigenous or non-Indigenous researcher or practitioner undertaking research or work with Indigenous communities.
- Explain the principles of a range of Indigenous Research Methodologies appropriate for application in research with Indigenous peoples
- Interpret and communicate the principles of current Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies guidelines to Indigenous community and professional audiences.
Assessment tasks
- Book Review
- Annotated Bibliography
PG - Discipline Knowledge and Skills
Our postgraduates will be able to demonstrate a significantly enhanced depth and breadth of knowledge, scholarly understanding, and specific subject content knowledge in their chosen fields.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Recognise the historical legacies of research and subsequent effects on research practices with Indigenous peoples today.
- Explain the principles of a range of Indigenous Research Methodologies appropriate for application in research with Indigenous peoples
- Apply appropriate Indigenous Studies theoretical frameworks to resolve a range of ethical problems in Indigenous research.
- Interpret and communicate the principles of current Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies guidelines to Indigenous community and professional audiences.
Assessment tasks
- Participation
- Book Review
- Annotated Bibliography
PG - Critical, Analytical and Integrative Thinking
Our postgraduates will be capable of utilising and reflecting on prior knowledge and experience, of applying higher level critical thinking skills, and of integrating and synthesising learning and knowledge from a range of sources and environments. A characteristic of this form of thinking is the generation of new, professionally oriented knowledge through personal or group-based critique of practice and theory.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Recognise the historical legacies of research and subsequent effects on research practices with Indigenous peoples today.
- Apply appropriate Indigenous Studies theoretical frameworks to resolve a range of ethical problems in Indigenous research.
- Critically reflect on current issues in Indigenous affairs and develop a proposal for small research project to address the problem.
- Interpret and communicate the principles of current Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies guidelines to Indigenous community and professional audiences.
Assessment tasks
- Book Review
- Annotated Bibliography
- Research Proposal
PG - Research and Problem Solving Capability
Our postgraduates will be capable of systematic enquiry; able to use research skills to create new knowledge that can be applied to real world issues, or contribute to a field of study or practice to enhance society. They will be capable of creative questioning, problem finding and problem solving.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Justify your role as an Indigenous or non-Indigenous researcher or practitioner undertaking research or work with Indigenous communities.
- Explain the principles of a range of Indigenous Research Methodologies appropriate for application in research with Indigenous peoples
- Apply appropriate Indigenous Studies theoretical frameworks to resolve a range of ethical problems in Indigenous research.
- Critically reflect on current issues in Indigenous affairs and develop a proposal for small research project to address the problem.
Assessment tasks
- Book Review
- Annotated Bibliography
- Research Proposal
PG - Effective Communication
Our postgraduates will be able to communicate effectively and convey their views to different social, cultural, and professional audiences. They will be able to use a variety of technologically supported media to communicate with empathy using a range of written, spoken or visual formats.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Justify your role as an Indigenous or non-Indigenous researcher or practitioner undertaking research or work with Indigenous communities.
- Explain the principles of a range of Indigenous Research Methodologies appropriate for application in research with Indigenous peoples
- Apply appropriate Indigenous Studies theoretical frameworks to resolve a range of ethical problems in Indigenous research.
- Interpret and communicate the principles of current Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies guidelines to Indigenous community and professional audiences.
Assessment tasks
- Participation
- Research Proposal
PG - Engaged and Responsible, Active and Ethical Citizens
Our postgraduates will be ethically aware and capable of confident transformative action in relation to their professional responsibilities and the wider community. They will have a sense of connectedness with others and country and have a sense of mutual obligation. They will be able to appreciate the impact of their professional roles for social justice and inclusion related to national and global issues
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Recognise the historical legacies of research and subsequent effects on research practices with Indigenous peoples today.
- Justify your role as an Indigenous or non-Indigenous researcher or practitioner undertaking research or work with Indigenous communities.
- Explain the principles of a range of Indigenous Research Methodologies appropriate for application in research with Indigenous peoples
- Apply appropriate Indigenous Studies theoretical frameworks to resolve a range of ethical problems in Indigenous research.
Assessment tasks
- Participation
- Research Proposal
Changes since First Published
| Date | Description |
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| 27/07/2018 | - minor changes to assessment to reflect AQF9 standard - added extra required readings linked to book review task |