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The Role of Participatory Action Research in Aboriginal Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

A-K Eckermann ,
D. Roberts  and
G. Kaplan
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In the past researchers have been carrying out such political acts in the firm belief that if we study something long enough, with sufficient disciplines and controls, then we will find “reality” and “truth”, then we will carry out studies which have scientific merit, which will contribute to the growing body of knowledge about how societies work. But research is generally carried out by fairly powerful people on those less powerful. In the process the powerless frequently become even more powerless because, as Guba and Lincoln (1989:125) argue:

Science, by asking only certain questions maintains (or reinforces) the status quo; it asks those questions that have been formulated by its own theories, and never takes account of the emic [outsider] formulations of its "subjects". We would argue that conventional science is as a result a force for disenfranchisement and disempowerment, for maintaining the status quo.

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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , December 1994 , pp. 10 - 18
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press or the authors 1994

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