Indigenous Research Methodologies & Methods

Presented by Joyce Frey, Ph.D.

Friday, December 20, 2024

9-11:30am PT / 11am-1:30pm CT / 12-2:30pm ET

Event held online via Zoom, link to access provided upon registration.

The lived experience of Indigenous Peoples is often misunderstood, misdirected, and misrepresented by the mainstream cultures, even though according to the United Nations they currently comprise 6.2% of the world’s total population, or about 476 million people representing 5,000 distinct groups, and speak the majority of the 7,000 languages spoken worldwide. In this series of online presentations, participants will have the opportunity to learn more deeply about important aspects of Indigenous Cultures and gain a new appreciation of their customs and worldviews.

The second session takes a deep dive into the academic world of research that introduces a variety of Indigenous Research Methodologies as a challenge to the status quo of the closed doors and minds of the academy. 

In this course the participants will review the standard Western perspectives of research practices with the goal of reaching for the best and emerging new approaches on the horizon. However, the “missing link” of Indigenous methodologies and methods will be explored and explained in depth to provide an avenue of inclusion in an otherwise less than diverse menu of options. The pitfalls of such hegemony will be laid bare for inspection, and opportunity for opening academic doors will be offered in the full spirit of including another venue of meeting the challenges of research within indigenous populations and beyond to include mainstream studies as well. 

Visual examples of Indigenous ways to explore and conduct research will be shown through videos, graphic representations, and stories. Models of the Maori, Hawaiian, Cree, and Cherokee among others will be reviewed in detail. The ethics involved with research also include an Indigenous perspective and will be included in the overarching ideology of research as a whole. Before closing, participants will be invited to a brief but thorough review of the procedures and challenges involved when collecting data that require physically crossing international borders. 

Zoom link will be available on course page in “My Courses” upon event registration. 

This program, when attended in its entirety, offers 2.5 CEs for Psychologists, 2.5 IL CEUS for Counselors and Social Workers, or 2.5 BBS California CEUs for LPCCs, LPSWs, and LMFTs.