Historically, people with disabilities (henceforth 'differently abled persons') have largely been on the periphery of society, including in the context of research. While the scientific literature is rife with studies about differently abled persons, these are often merely treated as objects of research, and are rarely actively involved in conducting research themselves. Disability is generally accompanied by a lack of employment, training and education, and, ultimately, by poverty. Inclusive research methodologies aim at mainstreaming the employability and entrepreneurial involvement of differently abled persons. Gaining an understanding of the challenges that differently abled persons face in developing employability and entrepreneurial skills and competencies requires that inclusive research methodologies take center stage in research on, and with, these persons.
Current inclusive research methodologies include participatory, emancipatory, partnership, and user-led research. However, the African Indigenous canons of research do not feature in this model conspicuously. Against this background, the goal of this Research Topic is to promote the inclusion of subjugated, pro-disability knowledge and marginalized epistemologies in inclusive research methodologies. Furthermore, the Research Topic aims to promote research by differently abled persons, to allow them to represent themselves in their diversity and educate society about disability.
The Research Topic employs the inclusive research paradigm of Botho/Ubuntu’s principles of epistemic justice. The now familiar mantra of 'nothing about us, without us' underpins research approaches to inclusive research methodologies. Research-based, psycho-biographical experiences and theory enhancing manuscripts may focus on the following questions/themes:
• How could inclusive research methodologies promote cognitive justice?
• What inclusive research paradigms (e.g., metrics and analytics) could leverage epistemic justice for differently abled persons?
• How could differently abled persons become co-researchers for employability and entrepreneurship (including metrics, analytics, and indicators to analyze trends and opportunities)?
• How could inclusive research methodologies encourage epistemic equity and social justice?
• How could inclusive research methodologies inspire egalitarian knowledge construction approaches?
• Inclusive research methodologies.
• Inclusive paradigms.
• Indigenous-inclusive approaches.
• Indigenous research paradigms.
• Indigenous African ontologies of disability.
Keywords:
disabilities, education, research, employability, entrepreneurship, inclusivity, research methods
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Historically, people with disabilities (henceforth 'differently abled persons') have largely been on the periphery of society, including in the context of research. While the scientific literature is rife with studies about differently abled persons, these are often merely treated as objects of research, and are rarely actively involved in conducting research themselves. Disability is generally accompanied by a lack of employment, training and education, and, ultimately, by poverty. Inclusive research methodologies aim at mainstreaming the employability and entrepreneurial involvement of differently abled persons. Gaining an understanding of the challenges that differently abled persons face in developing employability and entrepreneurial skills and competencies requires that inclusive research methodologies take center stage in research on, and with, these persons.
Current inclusive research methodologies include participatory, emancipatory, partnership, and user-led research. However, the African Indigenous canons of research do not feature in this model conspicuously. Against this background, the goal of this Research Topic is to promote the inclusion of subjugated, pro-disability knowledge and marginalized epistemologies in inclusive research methodologies. Furthermore, the Research Topic aims to promote research by differently abled persons, to allow them to represent themselves in their diversity and educate society about disability.
The Research Topic employs the inclusive research paradigm of Botho/Ubuntu’s principles of epistemic justice. The now familiar mantra of 'nothing about us, without us' underpins research approaches to inclusive research methodologies. Research-based, psycho-biographical experiences and theory enhancing manuscripts may focus on the following questions/themes:
• How could inclusive research methodologies promote cognitive justice?
• What inclusive research paradigms (e.g., metrics and analytics) could leverage epistemic justice for differently abled persons?
• How could differently abled persons become co-researchers for employability and entrepreneurship (including metrics, analytics, and indicators to analyze trends and opportunities)?
• How could inclusive research methodologies encourage epistemic equity and social justice?
• How could inclusive research methodologies inspire egalitarian knowledge construction approaches?
• Inclusive research methodologies.
• Inclusive paradigms.
• Indigenous-inclusive approaches.
• Indigenous research paradigms.
• Indigenous African ontologies of disability.
Keywords:
disabilities, education, research, employability, entrepreneurship, inclusivity, research methods
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.