Designing an “Indigenous Knowledge and Participatory Media Workshop” for Indigenous People Learners: A Reflexivity

Abstract

This paper follows my reflexivity as a non-Indigenous researcher who designed  the “Indigenous Knowledge and Participatory Media Workshop”  utilizing a participatory process of co-designing a workshop intended for Indigenous learners in an IPEd implementing school in Tanay, Rizal. The paper states that when designing a workshop for IP learners, it is essential to employ an iterative and dialogic process. The iterative process constitutes a series of consultations (integration of dialogic process) with Indigenous People Mandatory Representatives (IPMR), IPEd teachers, and IP learners. This process avoids the imposition of enforcing a power over the decision on what  culture-sensitive workshop concept should be designed for the young Indigenous peoples. The designed workshop is only tailor-fitted for the target Indigenous cultural community (ICC); however, the designing process provides context on how to conduct a participatory process in doing action research, similar to the workshop intended for IP learners.