Decolonising Research in a Sub-Saharan African Context: Exploring Ubuntu as a Foundation for Research Methodology, Ethics and Agenda

Autor/in	Seehawer, Maren Kristin
Titel	Decolonising Research in a Sub-Saharan African Context: Exploring Ubuntu as a Foundation for Research Methodology, Ethics and Agenda
Quelle	In: International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 21 (2018) 4, S.453-466 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1364-5579
DOI	10.1080/13645579.2018.1432404
Schlagwörter	African Culture; Indigenous Knowledge; Foreign Countries; Ethics; Caring; Foreign Policy; Research Methodology; Action Research; Participatory Research; Science Teachers; Interpersonal Relationship; Power Structure; Feminism; Sex Role; Story Telling; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Africa; Culture; Afrika; Kultur; Ausland; Ethik; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Außenpolitik; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Projektforschung; Forschungstätigkeit; Science; Teacher; Teachers; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Feminismus; Geschlechterrolle; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	In all parts of the world, researchers are addressing the colonial legacy of research. This article aims to contribute to the decolonisation of research in a sub-Saharan African context by exploring Ubuntu as an indigenous Southern African research paradigm. Drawing on lessons learnt from participatory action research with South African science teachers and on Ubuntu research literature, I develop, and reflect on, characteristics of an Ubuntu research ethics, agenda and methodology. Understood as humanness, Ubuntu encompasses a dimension of becoming human and being human. Both dimensions are realised through lived community and respectful, caring relations with other living beings and the environment. Thus, ethical protocols evolve around relating positively to others. Ubuntu research agendas contribute to strengthening community and methodologies are community based, relational and participatory. The emphasis of the article is not on presenting Ubuntu research as categorically oppositional to conventional methodologies, but on an approach to research that is grounded in indigenous African epistemologies. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01