Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Weekly Schedule of Readings
Note: Please look to e-class for all content to prepare for tutorial (including videos)
FALL SEMESTER SECTION 1: The Big Picture of Research Inquiry
TOPIC:
COURSE INTRODUCTION
Note: No required reading TOPIC:
RESEARCH & THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE
Reading:
Smith (2012). Introduction. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.
TOPIC:
POSITIVIST & POST-POSITIVIST PERSPECTIVES
Reading:
Ch 2: Asking Questions and Identifying Goals. van den Hoonaard (2018). Qualitative
Research in Action.
Nicholls, David. 2009. “Qualitative Research: Part One – Philosophies.” International Journal
of Therapy & Rehabilitation 16 (10): 526–533.
Purtill & Kopf. 2019. After men in Spain got paternity leave, they wanted fewer kids. Quartz.
https://qz.com/work/1614893/after-men-in-spain-got-paternity-leave-they- wanted-fewer-kids/
TOPIC:
RESEARCH, POWER & EMPIRE
WEEK 4 Sept. 29
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WEEK 5 Oct. 6
NO CLASS
Reading:
Smith (2012). Ch 1. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.
Elise Thorburn, “Students as Precarious Workers” (June 2011) 45:3 Canadian Dimension
31.
TOPIC:
SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE (CLASSIFICATION, COLLECTION & ESSENTIALISM)
Reading:
Smith (2012). Ch 2 & 3. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.
*Skim Chapter 5: Notes from Down Under and reflect on the diverse ways that knowledge
can be appropriated, misused, colonized, and commercialized*
READING WEEK (October 11-15)
SECTION 2: The Why(s) and How(s) of Research
WEEK 6 Oct.20
WEEK 7 Oct. 27
TOPIC:
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
Reading:
To Be Announced
TOPIC:
RESEARCH DESIGN
Reading:
Ch 3: Strategies for Designing research. van den Hoonaard (2018). Qualitative research in
action
Nicholls, David. 2009. “Qualitative Research: Part Two-Methodologies.” International Journal
of Therapy and Rehabilitation 16 (11): 586–93.
Recommended/Supplementary:
Alan Sears and James Cairns. 2010. A Good Book, in Theory: Making Sense Through
Inquiry. Second Edition. North York: University of Toronto Press, pp. 63-82 “Investigating the
classroom”
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DUE: TCPS2: CORE Certificate (evidence of completion)
• 11:59pm – Link in the Assignment Submission tab in e-class
WEEK 8 Nov. 3
TOPIC: ETHICS
Reading:
Ch 4 & 5. van den Hoonaard (2018). Qualitative Research in Action
Smith (2012). Ch 4: Research Adventures on Indigenous Land. Decolonizing Methodologies:
Research and Indigenous Peoples.
Recommended/Supplementary:
Steigman, Martha L., and Heather Castleden. 2015. “Leashes and Lies: Navigating the
Colonial Tensions of Institutional Ethics of Research Involving Indigenous Peoples in
Canada.” International Indigenous Policy Journal 6 (3): 2015.
SECTION 3: Quantitative Methods + Mixed Methods
WEEK 9 Nov. 10
DUE: Situated Position Assignment
• 11:59pm – Turnitin link on Moodle in the Assignment Submission tab TOPIC:
QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES & METHODS 1
Reading:
Chapter 8: Quantitative Methods. In: Creswell, J W. 2013. Research Design: Qualitative,
Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. p. 200-228
TOPIC:
QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES & METHODS 2
Reading:
Benjamin Baez. (2007). Thinking Critically About the “Critical”: Quantitative Research as
Social Critique. New Directions for Institutional Research, 133.
Frances K. Stage. (2007). Answering Critical Questions Using Quantitative Data. New
Directions for Institutional Research, 133.
WEEK 10 Nov.17
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WEEK 11 Nov.24
TOPIC:
BIG DATA & DIGITAL METHODS
Reading:
Fielding, Nigel G., Raymond M. Lee, Grant Blank, and Jonathan Bright. 2016. “The
Blogosphere.’” The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods.
Byrd, W. C., Gilbert, K. L., & Richardson, J. B. (2017). The vitality of social media for
establishing a research agenda on black lives and the movement. Ethnic and Racial Studies,
40(11), 1872–1881.
Recommended:
Fielding, Nigel G., Raymond M. Lee, Grant Blank, Helen Kennedy, and William Allen. 2016.
“Engaging Remote Marginalized Communities using Appropriate Online Research Methods”
The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, 307–26.
TOPIC:
MIXED METHODS
Reading:
Hesse-Biber, Sharlene. 2010. “Qualitative Approaches to Mixed Methods Practice.”
Qualitative Inquiry 16 (6): 455–68.
Marsh, T. N., Cote-Meek, S., Toulouse, P., Najavits, L. M., & Young, N. L. (2015). The
Application of Two-Eyed Seeing Decolonizing Methodology in Qualitative and Quantitative
Research for the Treatment of Intergenerational Trauma and Substance Use Disorders.
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 14(5).
DUE: Project Proposal
• 11:59pm – Turnitin link on e-class in the Assignment Submission tab