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Safe Frames: Essential Determinant for Educational Technology Implementation in an Indigenous Context

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Aboriginal; Ethnographic Researchers; First Nation; Indigenous; Postsecondary Learners

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This paper describes the requirements for a safe frame in teaching with and researching on educational technologies among an Indigenous community in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Following abuse and misuse of access privileges by researchers, policies were created for conducting research in Indigenous communities that are protective of Indigenous research communities and their members. As a result, all researchers including outsider researchers who intend to conduct research in these contexts must comply with these established policies and protocols. Despite these frameworks, the success of a research is not guaranteed.

The concern for entry into an Indigenous community for the purposes of conducting a research emerged during my doctoral studies which was based on a study that examined how Indigenous adult postsecondary learners in this remote Canadian Indigenous community would...

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I am pleased to acknowledge the generous financial support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through the Manitoba Research Alliance grant: Partnering for Change – Community-based solutions for Aboriginal and inner-city poverty.

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  1. Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Administration, Foundations and Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Ben Akoh

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Akoh, B. (2019). Safe Frames: Essential Determinant for Educational Technology Implementation in an Indigenous Context. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60013-0_187-1

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