Paper short abstract:

The awareness of colonial attitudes in Western scientific practice involves the education of researchers in academic institutions. The paper emphasise the use of pedagogical tools in the classroom to train self-reflexivity during the research process.

Paper long abstract:

The awareness of colonial attitudes in Western scientific practice involves the education of researchers in academic institutions. How are we preparing the young anthropologists to go for short period research that do not allow them to have time for personal envolvement to develop social relations from self observation while in the fieldwork? It is necessary to deconstruct the cultural rootedness of the western colonizing mentality. Although this deconstruction abounds, disseminated by various studies, researchers do not recognize this attitude in them during the research as a social practice. Intellectual information is not equal to self-recognition. It is necessary to go beyond the theory and create pedagogical tools that induce in the social scientist an uprooting induced by the cultural shock and thus is forced to see the world in an de-centred way. The paper suggests tools and technics to use with students as a preparation to understand the "field" to be researched, a "dive" into the world they want to understand. An extended time dialoguing with the people we want to understand and take their words seriously.