Applying decolonial portraiture methodology : understanding the experiences of social work educators engaged in challenging coloniality and reimaging social work education / José Paez, Nathan Durdella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Páez, José, author.

Durdella, Nathan, author.

Series:

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social work education--Case studies.

Social work education.

Social service--Research--Methodology--Case studies.

Social service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

This case study describes a collaborative dissertation research study in which we discuss our learning and application of a decolonial portraiture methodology. Our aim with this approach was to center, in the context of a dissertation research project, Indigenous knowledge, relational accountability, art-based methods, and a community advisory board to help us understand the experiences of MSW educators engaged in challenging coloniality and reimaging social work education. We share our process of learning to unlearn the dominance of Western research methods that sustain coloniality; learning to learn about decolonial and portraiture methodologies, Indigenous knowledge, and other critical research methods; and learning to put decolonial portraiture into action, along with the challenges and successes we experienced. At times, this sharing includes first-person narrative accounts by José, lead researcher in the project, that explore more personal and intimate experiences and insights in our collaborative work. Feeling empowered to initiate decolonial portraiture methodologies and use first-person narratives in the contexts of their own research practice, we hope readers will be inspired to learn more from the work of visionary decolonial and portraiture scholars and researchers and to build critical consciousness about coloniality efforts and strategies to delink from coloniality during research.

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ISBN:

1-5296-8933-3

9781529689334

OCLC:

1428169128