Decolonizing qualitative approaches for and by the Caribbean

As academics in postcolonial Caribbean countries, we have been trained to believe that research should be objective: a measurable benefit to the public good and quantifiable in nature so as to generalize findings to develop knowledge societies for economic growth. What happens, however when the very...

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Other Authors Stewart, Saran (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc, 2019.
SeriesInnovations in qualitative research.
Subjects
Ethnology > Caribbean Area.
Ethnology > Qualitative research.
Ethnology > Research > Methodology.
Social Science > Sociology > General.
Sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806606542
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-733-1
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 226 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • From slave narratives to "groundings" : moving from the peripheries to the centre of knowledge overview and introduction / Saran Stewart
  • Framing the Caribbean landscape : approaching grounded theory from a decolonizing perspective / Chayla Haynes and Saran Stewart
  • "Removing the stranglehold" : reshaping encounters with poetry through participatory observation in action research / Aisha T. Spencer
  • An inductive meta-synthesis of qualitative educational research in the English speaking Caribbean : 1990-2016 / Amanda K. Thomas
  • Unpacking educational policy and practice in Jamaica through critical discourse analysis : a theoretical framework and methodology / Yewande Lewis-Fokum
  • A missing part of the whole: poor performance in mathematics in the Caribbean: lessons from a qualitative, microgenetic, decolonizing study on fraction learning / Lois George
  • Reflection, dialogue, and transformation through participatory action research : experiences of Jamaica's change from within programme / Therese Ferguson
  • Thinking through fieldwork encounters in Brazil : critical reflections and future pathways / Doreen Gordon
  • Decolonizing Caribbean heritage : lessons learned and best practices for future research / Anne Pajard
  • Disrupting the colonial gaze : emancipatory imaginings of a Caribbean centered research praxis / Frank Tuitt.

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