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In her article “Lab coats or trench coats? Detective sleuthing as an alternative to scientifically based research in Indigenous educational communities,” Julie Kaomea (2013) argues science has played a “vital role in justifying and extending Western imperialism” and advocates “replacing the metaphor of the lab-coat-wearing scientific researcher with the trench-coat-clad detective or private eye” (p. 615). As Kaomea (2013) states, “Rather than specializing in a single investigative method, private detectives are methodological bricoleurs (Berry, 2006) who utilize methods ranging from suspect interrogation and document analysis to analytical chemistry, footprint examination and decoding ciphers” (p. 614).
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Peters, L., Ortiz, K., Swadener, B.B. (2015). Something Isn’t Right: Deconstructing Readiness with Parents, Teachers, and Children. In: Iorio, J.M., Parnell, W. (eds) Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education. Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137485120_3
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