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2nd Edition Debbie Bright (PhD) A book in the series He Raranga Mātauranga: Tā te Kaikōkiri Mana Wahine, tā te Hunga Whai Pānga, me tā te Tangata Whenua Titiro ki te Ao. An Interwoven Knowing: Feminist, Participatory and Indigenous Peoples’ Worldviews Forewords by Cheri Waititi and Assoc. Prof. Toni Bruce Fusion Print Group Ltd is the only Enviro-Mark Diamond level certified printer in the Waikato and one of only 3 across New Zealand. We are qualified to advise on sustainable print practices, processed, manufacturing and paper stocks. Managed by Landcare Research, the Enviro-Mark programme is NZ’s leading environmental certification programme. It is designed to improve organisations’ environmental performance through the implementation of simple, effective and credible environmental management systems. Fusion Print Group’s Enviro-Mark Diamond certification exceeds the requirements of ISO14001:2004, the best known international standard for environmental management. 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This series could be useful to you if you are an experienced qualitative researcher looking for a broader approach to understanding human experience or a new researcher in areas such as: aid and development, counselling, creative and performing arts, creativity and creative processes, creative problem-solving, culture, curriculum design, education, embodied knowing, emotion, empowerment, equality, gender, health, history, Indigenous Peoples, the intuitive, leadership, learning, marginalised peoples, media, personnel management, reflective practice, relationships, the physical, politics, psychology, sociology, spirituality, sport, teaching. This series of books is aimed at enabling new, and more experienced, researchers to investigate and, where appropriate, implement the research methodology I developed during my study of ten artists and how they learn. The broad approach, which I have termed FP-I, is an interweaving of feminist and participatory, informed by indigenous peoples’ worldviews; hence, the series: He Raranga Mātauranga: Tā te Kaikōkiri Mana Wahine, tā te Hunga Whai Pānga, me tā te Tangata Whenua Titiro ki te Ao. An Interwoven knowing: Feminist, Participatory and Indigenous Peoples’ Worldviews. FP-I enables the researcher to explore the lives of people more broadly by including many of the ways through which people ‘know’ (indigenous, cultural, spiritual, collaborative, embodied, etc). Such diverse ways of knowing may include verbal, non-verbal and non-verbalisable elements. The researcher may, therefore, present findings through traditional academic writing, and also in creative forms such as photographs, drawings, video, poetry, music, reflective journal excerpts, image narratives* and personal narrative. My particular interest is in creative and performing arts, notably dance; therefore, many of the examples are drawn from my studies in these areas. Since my studies were situated in Aotearoa New Zealand, this series has both Māori and English titles and I present relevant aspects of Māori worldviews as examples of Indigenous Peoples. I also provide diagrams and pictures as aids to clarity and include, as endnotes, all the relevant references. Kia ora koutou katoa – Greetings to you all. Debbie Bright January 2014 * An image narrative is a blending of dance, images, written or spoken word and, at times, music (Bright, 2005a, 2007, 2010). Titles/topics planned in the Series Ngā Puna Mātauranga How do we know? (June 2013, 2nd Edition Jan. 2014) Te Putanga i te Wheiao ki te Ao Mārama How do we find out: Research Methodology, Ethics and Methods Ngā Ara o te aka Matua How do we learn: Adult Education, Experiential Learning and Reflective Practice (June 2013, 2nd Edition. Jan 2014) Te Auahatanga me te Ara Auaha Creativity and Creative Process (June 2013, 2nd Edition. Jan 2014) An Interwoven World: Spirituality, Culture, Gender, and Art-making Embodied Knowing Collaborative Knowing Ngā Puna Mātauranga How Do We Know? 2nd Edition A Book in the Series He Raranga Mātauranga He Raranga Mātauranga: Tā te Kaikōkiri Mana Wahine, tā te Hunga Whai Pānga, me tā te Tangata Whenua Titiro ki te Ao. An Interwoven Knowing Feminist, Participatory and Indigenous Peoples’ Worldviews Debbie Bright (PhD) Forewords by Cheri Waititi and Assoc. Prof. Toni Bruce D A Bright 21 Ridout Street, Hamilton 3200, New Zealand [email protected] Debbie Bright asserts the right to be identifi ed as the author of this work. First published 2013, 2nd Edition 2014. All rights reserved. Apart from any fair dealings for the purpose of study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without the permission in writing of the author. National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. Bright, Debbie A., 1954- Ngā Puna Mātauranga How Do We Know? A Book in the Series: He Raranga Mātauranga: Tā te Kaikōkiri Mana Wahine, tā te Hunga Whai Pānga, me tā te Tangata Whenua Titiro ki te Ao. An Interwoven Knowing: Feminist, Participatory and Indigenous Peoples’ Worldviews. ISBN: 978-0-9922503-9-3 1. Feminist. 2. Participatory. 3. Indigenous peoples’ worldviews. 4. Kaupapa Māori 5. Ways of knowing. 6. Cultural knowing 7. Spiritual knowing. 8. Embodied knowing. 9. Presentational knowing. 10. Title. Designer: Kelly Mitchell. Māori Language Advisor: Te Aro Moxon. Cover Artwork and Photograph: Debbie Bright. Printed by Fusion Print who are certified to Enviro-Mark Diamond level. Dedication To my long suffering and very supportive husband, Stephen, without whom my studies and this series would not have come about. Acknowledgements I wish to acknowledge and thank all those who have made this publication possible. Thanks once again to Dr Karen Barbour and Dr Toni Bruce who supported and advised me in my earlier studies and to the nine other wonderful participants. Grateful thanks to Dr Karen Barbour and Dr Rachel Wood for their editing advice. Thanks to Robert Fear Photography (New Zealand). Many thanks to Kelly Mitchell for her fantastic design work for the book and Rachael Bright for invaluable design advice and assistance with the website and electronic downloads. 2nd Edition Notes For speakers of te reo Māori, one word has been changed in the series name, providing greater accuracy. There are minimal changes in the text and no changes to content. Endnotes and references have been adjusted and updated in a small number of cases. FFoorreewwoorrdd Ngā Puna Mātauranga is a book worth reading especially if you are an experienced qualitative researcher of the human experience, or an emerging researcher interested in investigating a research methodology that weaves feminist and participatory with informed indigenous peoples ways of knowing. Whether exploring to broaden your methodology through inclusiveness and collaboration. Or wanting to use a methodology that sits comfortably to your ways of knowing and that of your participants this will be worth reading. This book is succinct with two reading columns on each page that are easily understood. Visually, I like the way the concepts of the methodology have been graphically represented along with the use of a thematic visual background to the headings of sections of the book. As a photographer I like the use of photographs of the author in dance creation as exemplars. As a friend, colleague, educator, artist, indigenous woman and participant of the author’s research on the ways of knowing of ten women artists in reflective practice, I feel privileged to be asked to contribute more to the author’s work. For me this book edifies and acknowledges our unique indigenous ways of knowing that inform the interwoven methodology. These ways have historical content along with that of the dominant paradigms of knowing. This is a great start to the series and I look forward to the next book Te Putanga I te Wheiao ki te Ao Mārama How do we find out: Research Methodology, Ethics and Methods. Cheri Waititi Arts and Language Education Department Faculty of Education University of Waikato ix Ngā Puna Mātauranga offers an innovative theoretical approach to trying to understand the complexity of lived experience. In weaving together feminist, participatory and indigenous ways of knowing, the author demonstrates the value of each for enhancing our ability to capture the multi-dimensional elements of creative art-making. The inclusion of an indigenous perspective and indigenous forms of art- making firmly ground the work in the context of Aotearoa/New Zealand. However, this book has relevance for art-makers, community workers and academics in many fields who are looking for ways to do and think differently about their work. The author demonstrates that both reflective practice and creative art-making are far from individualistic enterprises; crucially they are thoroughly influenced by and embedded in the artists’ relationships with others. This work also offers the potential to challenge how we go about representing the creative experience. Much academic work focuses on what people say or write; the challenge remains to adequately capture knowledge and understanding that can best be understood in other ways, such as through embodied ways of knowing. Associate Professor Toni Bruce Faculty of Education The University of Auckland
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