Abstract
A decolonizing approach to research requires consideration to the context in which the research is being designed as well as the implications of the research, its values, its claims and its relation to power. This means creating avenues beyond those privileged by cartesian dichotomies to access embodied knowledge, not only disembodied intellectual knowledge. Inspired by a/r/tography, an established form of educational arts-based research, I present the addition of a new dimension to create He/a/r/tography, where He stands for healer and healing, a, for artist, r for researcher, t for teacher and graphy for writing. He/a/r/tography is a unique philosophical orientation to research that offers epistemological, ontological, axiological and methodological foundations towards decolonizing knowledge. This article describes he/a/r/tography and discusses the affordances that arise from this form of practice-based research.
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