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Where can I find information on western and indigenous worldviews in research.
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"A worldview is a system of knowledge that develops from birth and is shaped by the cultural, social and physical environment you grow up in." (Heaslip et al., 2023, p.144). There is a lot more information about worldviews in this chapter of Navigating the maze of research.
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Heaslip, V., Drummond, A. Marriot, R. & Wilson, D. (2023). Worldviews. In D. Jackson, E.Halcomb & H. Waltham (Eds.). Navigating the maze of research. (6th ed., pp.144-145). Elsevier.
If you are a nursing student you can find other books covering this topic by searching on "worldviews" in Clinical Key to find the section in a range of textbooks e.g.
Articles
Kurtz, D. L. (2013). Indigenous methodologies: Traversing Indigenous and Western worldviews in research. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 9(3), 217-229. https://doi.org/10.1177/117718011300900303