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Decolonizing Methodology

Disabled children as research managers and participant ethnographers

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Inclusive Communities

Part of the book series: Studies in Inclusive Education ((STUIE,volume 16))

Abstract

We approach this chapter with a number of communities in mind. Disabled people, people of color and gay, transsexual and queer people share a common history of being colonized by researchers who “have probed, recollected, appropriated and ultimately exploited their lives in insensitive and offensive ways” (Llorens, 2008. p. 3). Research is an imperialist, disablist and heteronormative peculiarity of modernist knowledge production. In 1999, Tuhiwai Smith issued a call for the decolonizing of methodologies and in this chapter we take up that call. Tuhiwai Smith demands us to think again about how research can be enacted - as a liberatory rather than oppressive venture.

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  1. Dan Goodley
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  1. University of Malta, Malta

    Andrew Azzopardi

  2. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

    Shaun Grech

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Goodley, D., Runswick-Cole, K. (2012). Decolonizing Methodology. In: Azzopardi, A., Grech, S. (eds) Inclusive Communities. Studies in Inclusive Education, vol 16. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-849-0_15

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