Pedagogical Talking Circles: Decolonizing Education through Relational Indigenous Frameworks

Indigenous Métissage: a decolonizing research sensibility

Improving Indigenous health through education.

In 2007, the online publication Crikey (https://www. crikey.com.au) estimated that over 20 such reports had been issued since the above comment was made. While clinicians focus on medical advances to benefit health care, real improvement in Indigenous health will come through attention to factors such as education, gender, power, racism and employment conditions. These daily living factors cons...

Introducing healing circles and talking circles into primary care.

We report on the incorporation of a North American aboriginal procedure called "the talking circle" into primary care in areas serving this population. Communication is regulated through the passing of a talking piece (an object of special meaning or symbolism to the circle facilitator, who is usually called the circle keeper). Twelve hundred people participated in talking circles in which 415 ...

The Implementation of Talking in Circles

Sociofugal space is not necessarily bad, nor is sociopetal space universally good. What is desirable is flexibility and congruence between design and function so that there is a variety of spaces, and people can be involved or not, as the occasion and mood demand – Edward T. Hall The requirements for Talking in Circles focused on full-duplex audioconferencing between a substantial number of sim...

Research on indigenous elders: from positivistic to decolonizing methodologies.

Although indigenous peoples have lower life expectancies than the social majority populations in their countries, increasing numbers of indigenous people are living into old age. Research on indigenous elders is informed by a number of research traditions. Researchers have mined existing data sets to compare characteristics of indigenous populations with non-indigenous groups, and these finding...