What was the criteria for choosing the indigenous views presented?
We had three criteria for our choice of informants: they had to be fluent in their mother language, they had to have been through some ‘mainstream’ education and they had to have chosen to work for their communities in the protection of their ways of knowing. In that sense, we were looking for participants/informants with a double vision: a lived experience and critique of being ‘schooled’ and a deep investment in the understanding of their communities’ views, aspirations and of the issues affecting their communities as a result of colonialism. The rationale was that we wanted to focus on the differences between epistemological choices and their implications in the lived realities of these communities, and these participants could make these connections more easily. A more detailed discussion of the issue of representation can be found in the article Translating theory into practice and walking minefields: lessons from the project ‘Through Other Eyes’ available for download here.
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