Chapter 3: Frameworks & Methods

Overview of Contents

• Shaping change in Indigenous research
  Decolonisation
  Indigenist research

• Important terms and methods
  Ganma – knowledge sharing
  Yarning – an Indigenous style of conversation and storytelling
  Case story – Using yarning as a research methodology
  Dadirri – listening deeply to one another
  Case story – Using Dadirri as a research methodology 

• Approaching research in the contested space
  Case story – The Community Harmony Project

• Approaches to support Indigenous research reform
  Facilitated development approach to research
  Case story – The CRCAH facilitated development approach to research
  Collaborative, participatory and multidisciplinary research
  Case story – Gapuwiyak child health project: collaborative and participatory research
  Empowerment approaches in research
  Case story – The Family Wellbeing program: empowerment research

• Key messages for researchers

Excerpt from Chapter 3

Different research questions require different research approaches and methodologies. Disciplines tend to use particular frameworks. Some of the methods and frameworks developed by Indigenous research and researchers significantly influence the way we think and go about research in Indigenous settings.

This chapter presents some research methods and frameworks that increase Indigenous ownership and leadership of health research. It explains theories that bring together Indigenous and Western research traditions and uses case stories to show how Indigenous approaches have been put into practice.

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