Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: In indigenous research projects, there is a strong emphasis on interviews and the analysis of the data that results. There is, however, another form of research that still calls to be fully acknowledged. Philosophical research shares some ground with empirical because it responds to a Māori history and experience of oppression. One clear area in which it may differ, though, is in how it attempts to acknowledge the presence of 'things', which we might call our 'whanaunga' (relations), even where these have been deemed by Western science to be inanimate. More importantly, philosophical research is risky because the thing continues to influence the researching self, despite the self's eventual disengagement from the research. Philosophical research - the kind that seeks an unobtainable ground of thought-is at once aware of and tentative towards the thing. It also acts within the influence of the thing: this phenomenon for the author can be best felt when the bizarre is encountered in everyday observations.
Source: Waikato journal of education
Author: Carl Te Hira Mika
Institution: University of Waikato
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2176646685