Includes bibliographical references.

Situating knowledge systems -- Research paradigms -- Discovery and recovery : reading and conducting research responsibly -- Whose reality counts? : research methods in question -- Postcolonial indigenous research paradigms -- Decolonizing evaluation -- Decolonizing mixed methods research -- Indigenous mixed methods in program evaluation -- Theorizing on social science research methods : indigenous perspectives -- Culturally responsive indigenous research methodologies -- Decolonizing the interview method -- Participatory research methods -- Postcolonial indigenous feminist research methodologies -- Building partnerships and integrating knowledge systems.

"Author Bagele Chilisa updates her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspectives - especially those of women, minority groups, former colonized societies, indigenous people, historically oppressed communities, and people with disabilities, the second edition of Indigenous Research Methodologies situates research in a larger, historical, cultural, and global context to make visible the specific methodologies that are commensurate with the transformative paradigm of social science research"--