Abstract
Anti-Indigenous racism education and cultural safety training can help cultivate greater
awareness and hold the potential to encourage western-trained researchers to work
in solidarity with Indigenous partners to resist the structural status quo. The purpose
of this article is to provide an overview and author reflections of an immersive educational
series “The Language of Research: How do we speak? How are we heard?”. The series
was developed by a Canadian group that included an Indigenous Knowledge Keeper, non-Indigenous
researchers, and parent partners, all of whom have training or experience in westernized
research and/or health care. The six-session virtual series was made available through
a provincial pediatric neurodevelopment and rehabilitation research group in Canada.
Participation was open to a broad audience, including but not limited to researchers,
clinicians, families, and health care professionals. This learning opportunity was
developed as a starting point for ongoing integration of an anti-racism perspective
within our provincial research group and began through conversation about how words
or language typically used in Western approaches to research, (“recruit”, “consent”,
“participant”) could be unwelcoming, exclusionary, and harmful. Topics that were explored
during the sessions include: Using Descriptive Language/Communication; Relationships
and Connection; and Trust, Healing, and Allyship. The article aims to contribute to
the ongoing dialogue related to disrupting racism and decolonizing research in the
fields of neurodevelopment and rehabilitation. Reflections about the series are offered
by the authorship team throughout the article, to solidify and share learning. We
acknowledge this is only one of many steps in our learning.
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Publication history
Accepted:
January 4,
2023
Received in revised form:
December 16,
2022
Received:
February 3,
2022
Publication stage
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© 2023 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
