Catherine SABINOT, Institut de recherche pour le développement, New Caledonia
Pierre METSAN, Ministry of Education and Training , Vanuatu
Edouard HNAWIA, University of New-Caledonia, New Caledonia
Eddie WADRAWANNE, University of New-Caledonia, New Caledonia
Valentine BOUDJEMA, University of New-Caledonia, New Caledonia
Lucie GOSSET, Institut de recherche pour le développement, New Caledonia
A-Tena PIDJO, Institut de recherche pour le développement, New Caledonia
Gilbert DAVID, Institut de recherche pour le développement, New Caledonia
Does being a researcher from the island where we conduct research on local knowledge or from elsewhere change our practices? Does living in the places where we conduct our research, or only going there periodically, could change the data collected, the analyses that result from it, and then the choices of possible valorization? What are the opportunities and constraints that our status implies? How can we move towards quality research that is understood and mobilized?
Researchers working in Vanuatu and New Caledonia for 5 to 40 years, native and non-native of these islands, living or not in the places where we do our research, we propose to consider some research experiences carried out collectively at at least one stage of the research and to analyze the interest of crossing our views and working side by side to produce quality fundamental research as well as results that are appropriated and integrated into public policies. After reviewing the difficulties and opportunities that our respective statuses have implied in these projects, we will show that the local knowledge we collect, whether it concerns food practices, health or the teaching and learning of mathematics, (1) constitutes elements of understanding of the relationships to the world that each group constructs, and (2) supports dialogue between populations, scientists, agents of public authorities... Finally, we will discuss the paths to be considered in order to bring together dispersed knowledge and to promote the articulation between local and scientific knowledge, not aiming at a comparison between these types of knowledge but considering the contribution of each to the production of a more sustainable world because it would be better understood by all in its complexity
Mots clés : research practices|native and non-native researchers| local knowledge|scientific knowledge| implied science
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