Different paradigms of evidence and knowledge: Recognising, honouring, and celebrating Indigenous ways of knowing and being
Different paradigms of evidence and knowledge: Recognising, honouring, and celebrating Indigenous ways of knowing and being
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10.1111/1467-8500.12400
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发表时间：
2020-01-14
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Althaus, Catherine
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作者：
Althaus, Catherine
关于循证决策的争论主要是从西方的本体论和认识论范式出发的。其他存在和认知方式既不受政策空间的限制，也不受学科的限制，当然也不是以同样的方式或在同样的程度上。然而，面对文化承认、多样性和包容性议程以及真相后政治和对专业知识的质疑，这种情况正在发生变化。本文探讨了土著人的认识和存在方式的贡献，作为提供有效的，替代形式的证据，应该告知决策过程。澳大利亚的经验表明，土著证据和知识提供了独特的、实质性的见解，这些见解可以作为“礼物”提供给政策和公共行政社区。这种贡献在澳大利亚和世界的危险中没有得到承认和纳入公共行政，因为土著方法为参与，可持续性和政策创新提供了新的令人兴奋的方式。它不应被增选或推定。土著人民需要有自决的途径，以决定他们希望分享或不分享什么、为什么分享以及如何分享。
Debates over evidence-informed policymaking are predominantly structured from a western paradigm of ontology and epistemology. Other ways of being and knowing are neither privileged by the policy space nor the discipline, certainly not in the same way or to the same degree. This is changing, however, in the face of cultural recognition and with diversity and inclusion agendas and within the contexts of post-truth politics and the questioning of expertise. This article explores the contribution of Indigenous ways of knowing and being as providing valid, alternative forms of evidence that ought to inform the policymaking process. Australian experience suggests that Indigenous evidence and knowledge offers unique, substantive insights that are offered as 'gifts' to inform policy and public administration communities. This contribution is unrecognised and unincorporated into public administration at Australia and the world's peril given that Indigenous approaches offer new exciting ways forward for engagement, sustainability, and policy innovation. It should not be co-opted or presumed. Indigenous peoples need to be given self-determination avenues to decide what they wish to share or not, why, and how.