Islands Matters - Hebridean Educational Research Methods

This webinar will compare some of the traditional ways of knowing, methods of gathering research, in the Gàidhealtachd and Canada. Traditional Hebridean learning practices honour collective knowledge, over individualism, and dùthchas, the connection of our knowledge to the land. Researchers of all levels (beginner and senior) respond to learning through reflective narrative and traditional story. These pathways to learning and researching are aided by community engagement. Community-based research fuels the attainment of critical knowledge and honours voice.

Dr. Kara Ghobhainn Smith is an educational researcher in Scotland and Canada. Based in Balallan, Isle of Lewis she researches, supervises and writes about narrative inquiry, participatory research and compassionate community formation. She is the organiser of the 'Teaching through Trauma' series on the Island, and her latest chapter in Prof. Judith McConnell-Farmer's book, Metacognition: new ways to think and learn, will be released at the time of this Webinar.

Smith is the programme leader and a lecturer in the Tertiary and Higher Education, Research Methods, and Digital Pedagogy courses at the UHI NWH.

This is the second in the Islands Matters seminar series

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