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    Toward A Decolonial Dance Research Parad

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    Lerato Makgobathe
    This document discusses how Indigenous African knowledge systems can be used to develop a decolonized approach to dance education research and scholarly writing. It examines how the author has applied the African philosophy of Ubuntu and the Kiganda tradition of okuluka omukeeka to frame the ethics, methodology, and vision of their research projects focused on Indigenous dance practices. The analysis explores how these frameworks provide a decolonial alternative to challenging Eurocentric research norms and revealing new ways for dance researchers to engage Indigenous knowledge.

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    This document discusses how Indigenous African knowledge systems can be used to develop a decolonized approach to dance education research and scholarly writing. It examines how the author has applied the African philosophy of Ubuntu and the Kiganda tradition of okuluka omukeeka to frame the ethics, methodology, and vision of their research projects focused on Indigenous dance practices. The analysis explores how these frameworks provide a decolonial alternative to challenging Eurocentric research norms and revealing new ways for dance researchers to engage Indigenous knowledge.

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    This document discusses how Indigenous African knowledge systems can be used to develop a decolonized approach to dance education research and scholarly writing. It examines how the author has applied the African philosophy of Ubuntu and the Kiganda tradition of okuluka omukeeka to frame the ethics, methodology, and vision of their research projects focused on Indigenous dance practices. The analysis explores how these frameworks provide a decolonial alternative to challenging Eurocentric research norms and revealing new ways for dance researchers to engage Indigenous knowledge.

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    Toward A Decolonial Dance Research Parad

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    Lerato Makgobathe
    This document discusses how Indigenous African knowledge systems can be used to develop a decolonized approach to dance education research and scholarly writing. It examines how the author has applied the African philosophy of Ubuntu and the Kiganda tradition of okuluka omukeeka to frame the ethics, methodology, and vision of their research projects focused on Indigenous dance practices. The analysis explores how these frameworks provide a decolonial alternative to challenging Eurocentric research norms and revealing new ways for dance researchers to engage Indigenous knowledge.

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    ABSTRACT

    How might a researcher use Indigenous African knowledge systems to develop a


    decolonial dance education research paradigm and scholarly writing? What Indigenous
    African knowledge systems can anchor dance education research? These questions have
    been critical in framing the decolonial dance education research and writing paradigm
    that the author uses as a researcher. In this chapter, the author draws on his
    autoethnographic reflections to critically examine how he has developed and applied the
    African philosophy of Ubuntu as a hermeneutic phenomenology to frame the ethics,
    agenda, logic, conceptualization, spirit, contextualization, and vision of his research
    projects in Indigenous dance practices. The analysis unpacks the author’s reflexivity and
    positionality as being-in-the-world and being-with-others-in-the-world of fieldwork.
    Moreover, the article dissects how the Kiganda tradition of okuluka omukeeka (weaving
    the mat) provides a methodological formula, logic, and creed that the author has
    employed to conduct fieldwork, analyze data, and write scholarly works. These
    decolonial paradigms, which confront, decenter, and critique the existing hegemonic
    Anglo-European research and writing canons, reveal the complex possibilities and
    pathways that are available for dance researchers to engage Indigenous knowledge
    systems as valuable and valid markers in the process of decolonizing academic research
    and writing in dance education.

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