Do Some Good

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Description

Topics covered in this unit include:

•  Community-based participatory research (where community drives the research questions and methods)
• Other model of research framing: Insurgent research (Adam Gaudry) – orienting knowledge-creation toward Indigenous worldviews; directing responsibility toward community; validates indigenous worldview, non-action can be insurgent and good
• What equals “good” and who defines it? (outcome, process, goodwill, relationships)
  • cross-cultural conceptions of “good”
  • beneficence (favor interest and wellbeing of client)
  •  humility as good, how can my skills help you
  •  ethical, religious, economic, cultural
  •  community-readiness in relation to return of ancestors and objects
  •  culturally collaborative process of defining good in any paritcular instance
  •  following the law versus not doing bad versus doing good
• What are the issues that matter? Sovereignty, health, self-sufficiency

Learning Goals

• Demonstrate how knowledge creation can be oriented toward communities first
• Enact responsibility as a researcher toward communities
• Incorporate validating indigenous worldviews in research
• Assess various definitions of “good”