Indigenous Communities and Community-Engaged Research: Opportunities and Challenges
Date
2016
Authors
McGregor, Catherine
McIvor, Onowa
Rosborough, Patricia
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Publisher
Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning
Abstract
As the inaugural issue of The Engaged Scholar Journal made apparent, while there is significant evidence that community-engaged scholarship has reached a critical mass in Canadian institutions, many important junctures still need to be explored. One such issue is the recognition of Indigenous community-engaged scholarship. Working from an appreciative stance, the three authors of this article explore how existing community-engaged scholarship theory intersects with their own experiences as academics—teasing out some of the potentialities and tensions that exist in the lived spaces where community-engagement thrives, amidst the boundaries of institutional tenure and promotion policies. The article also explores what kinds of practices or policies might be usefully considered by institutions, particularly around how to engage in more inclusive processes of scholarly recognition. We argue it is possible to embrace tools that create reciprocal, respectful and meaningful relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples who share deeply held beliefs in the power of research to alter lives and communities in powerful ways.
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Keywords
Decolonization, Indigenous scholarship, tenure and promotion, community-engaged scholarship, scholarly reconciliation
Citation
McGregor, C. McIvor, O. & Rosborough, P. (2016). Indigenous Communities and Community-Engaged Research: Opportunities and Challenges. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning, 2(1), 1-15. http://hdl.handle.net/10515/sy54j0bf3