Diverse Complexities, Complex Diversities: Critical Qualitative Educational Research in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Issue 4 (December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ritchie, Jenny
• Is Part Of: International review of qualitative research. Volume 10:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 468
• Page End: 481
• Publication Date: 2017-12
• Subjects: please add some; Qualitative research -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; Social justice -- Periodicals; Qualitative research; Social justice; Social sciences -- Research; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 001.42
• DOI: 10.1525/irqr.2017.10.4.468
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1940-8447

Abstract

This paper highlights considerations for critical qualitative researchers in relation to the need to enact methodologies that are contextually responsive. It outlines a range of intersecting complexities that emerge from a critical reading of the context for research in Aotearoa (New Zealand), which include histories of colonisation of Indigenous peoples, increasing cultural diversity likely to be futher impacted by migration from Pacific Islands to Aotearoa because of the climate change crisis, and increasing economic disparities between rich and poor. It then draws upon scholarship by Māori and Pacific Island scholars that identifies alternative methodologies that arise from Indigenous ways of knowing, being, doing, and relating. It concludes with a series of questions that may be informative for researchers as they design methodologies which engage Indigenous and other diverse perspectives and peoples.