Contributions To Alternative Concepts Of Knowledge

Author : Hebe Kuhn, Michael Vessuri
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838208947

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Contributions to Alternative Concepts of Knowledge by Hebe Kuhn, Michael Vessuri Pdf

In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not follow the definition for scientific knowledge as applied by the European social sciences as an alternative concept of knowledge, as “indigenous” knowledge. Perception has changed with time: Not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ticket to the European social science world, but the indigenization of European theories is seen by some as the contribution of “peripheral” social sciences to join the theories of the “centers”. This book offers contributions to the discourses about alternative concepts of knowledge, inviting the reader to decide if they are alternative, indigenous, or European types of knowledge. However, in order to make this decision, the reader must know what the nature of the European concepts of science and of scientific knowledge is; this might be a motivation to read a book that presents thoughts claiming to be alternative concepts of knowledge, alternative to the European concept of science.

Author : Michael Kuhn,Hebe Vessuri
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838268941

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Contributions to Alternative Concepts of Knowledge by Michael Kuhn,Hebe Vessuri Pdf

In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not conform to their own definition of scientific knowledge as an alternative kind of knowledge, as ‘indigenous’ knowledge. Perception has changed with time: not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ticket to the world of European social science, but the indigenization of European theories is seen by some as the contribution of peripheral social sciences to join the theories of the centers. This book offers contributions to the conversation on alternative concepts of knowledge, inviting the reader to decide if they are truly alternative, indigenous, or European types of knowledge.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264047983

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Innovating to Learn, Learning to Innovate by OECD Pdf

This book summarises and discusses key findings from the learning sciences, shedding light on the cognitive and social processes that can be used to redesign classrooms to make them highly effective learning environments.

Author : Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781793639981

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Performing Craft in Mexico by Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff Pdf

This book examines how Mexican artisans and diverse actors participate in translations of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft.

Author : Michael Kuhn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838268927

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How the Social Sciences Think about the World's Social by Michael Kuhn Pdf

At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences took an epochal 'turn' that revolutionized their theory-building. As a response to what they called the globalization of the social, they found the need to globalize their theorizing as well. It is curious that only after two centuries of colonialism and imperialism, after two world wars and several economic world crises, did they discover that there is a world beyond the national socials; it is even more strange that the social sciences globalize their theorizing by comparing theories about nationally confined socials and by creating all sorts of 'local' theories, as if any national social was a secluded social biotope. Trying to globalize the social sciences, they argue that globalizing social science theorizing means finding a way of theorizing that must, above all, be liberated from 'scientism' in order to allow a 'provincialization' of thinking. Not surprisingly, the globalizing social sciences have also rediscovered mythological and moral thinking as a means for a true scientific universalism. Michael Kuhn argues that the oddities of the globalizing social sciences are not accidents, but a consequence of the nature of how the social sciences theorize about the social.

Author : Wiebke Keim,Ercüment Çelik,Veronika Wöhrer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317127680

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Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences by Wiebke Keim,Ercüment Çelik,Veronika Wöhrer Pdf

An innovative contribution to debates on the internationalization and globalization of the social sciences, this book pays particular attention to their theoretical and epistemological reconfiguration in the light of postcolonial critiques and critiques of Eurocentrism. Bringing together theoretical contributions and empirical case studies from around the world, including India, the Americas, South Africa, Australia and Europe, it engages in debates concerning public sociology and explores South-South research collaborations specific to the social sciences. Contributions transcend established critiques of Eurocentrism to make space for the idea of global social sciences and truly transnational research. Thematically arranged and both international and interdisciplinary in scope, this volume reflects the different theoretical and thematic backgrounds of the contributing authors, who enter into dialogue and debate with one another in the development of a more inclusive, more representative and more theoretically relevant stage for the social sciences. A rigorous critique of the contemporary state of the social sciences as well as an attempt to find another way of doing transnational sociology, Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences will appeal to scholars of sociology, political science and social theory with interests in the production of social scientific knowledge, postcolonialism and transnationalism in research.

Author : Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035624052

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Play Among Books by Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81 Pdf

How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.

Author : Christer Karlsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317370086

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Research Methods for Operations Management by Christer Karlsson Pdf

Research Methods for Operations Management, second edition is a toolkit of research approaches primarily for advanced students and beginner researchers but also a reference book for any researcher in OM. Many students begin their career in research limited by the one or few approaches taken by their department. The concise, accessible overviews found here equip them with an understanding of a variety of methods and how to use them, enabling them to tailor their research project to their own strengths and goals. The more seasoned researcher will find comprehensive descriptions and analyses on a wide variety of research approaches. This updated and enhanced edition responds to the latest developments in OM, including the growing prominence of services and production of intangible products, and the increasing use of secondary data and of mixed approaches. Alternative research approaches are included and explored to help with the early planning of research. This edition also includes expanded literature review and analysis to guide students towards the next steps in their reading, and more detailed step-by-step advice to tie theory with the researcher’s own practice. Including contributions from an impressive range of the field’s leading thinkers in OM research, this is a guide that no-one embarking on an OM research project should be without.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Mathematical ability
ISBN : MINN:319510028265996

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Contributed position papers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Godin, Benoît,Gaglio, Gérald,Vinck, Dominique
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789902303

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Handbook on Alternative Theories of Innovation by Godin, Benoît,Gaglio, Gérald,Vinck, Dominique Pdf

This insightful Handbook scrutinizes alternative concepts and approaches to the dominant economic or industrial theories of innovation. Providing an assessment of these alternatives, it questions the absence of these neglected types of innovation and suggests diverse theories.

Author : Judy Marquez Kiyama,Cecilia Rios-Aguilar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315447308

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Funds of Knowledge in Higher Education by Judy Marquez Kiyama,Cecilia Rios-Aguilar Pdf

Refining and building on the concept in a sophisticated and multidisciplinary way, this book uses a funds of knowledge approach and connects it to other key conceptual frameworks in education to examine issues related to the access and transition to college, college persistence and success, and pedagogies in higher education. Research on funds of knowledge has become a standard reference to signal a sociocultural orientation in education that seeks to build strategically on the experiences, resources, and knowledge of families and children, especially those from low-income communities of color. Challenging existing deficit thinking in the field, the contribution of this unique and timely book is to apply this concept to and map future work on funds of knowledge in higher education.

Author : John E. Trent,Michael Stein
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783866495449

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The World of Political Science by John E. Trent,Michael Stein Pdf

How well is the field of political studies doing and where is it headed? These questions are answered by this broad world overview of political science, its advances and shortcomings, along with prescriptions for the future in the first decades of the 21th century. The volume includes three world regional assessments of the discipline by senior scholars along with an in-depth survey of various sub-disciplinary fields and a concluding critical essay on the future of political studies. Great as a text book, i.e., an introductory global overview.

Author : Robert J. Howlett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642205088

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Innovation through Knowledge Transfer 2010 by Robert J. Howlett Pdf

This volume represents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovation through Knowledge Transfer, InnovationKT’2010, organised jointly by KES International and the Institute of Knowledge Transfer, and taking place in Coventry, UK on 7&8 December 2010. Featuring world-class invited speakers and contributions from a range of backgrounds and countries, the conference provided an excellent opportunity to disseminate, share and discuss the impact of university-business interaction through knowledge transfer in all its forms. There were two main motivations in initiating the Innovation through Knowledge Transfer series. The first aim was to provide the chance for publication on a subject where few opportunities exist already. The second motivation was to foster the development of a community from the diverse range of individuals practicing knowledge transfer. It is becoming clear that the delegates of the conference are drawn from a diverse community of practice. InnovationKT’2010 has succeeded in bringing together contributions from both the academic and practitioner sections of the knowledge transfer community. The programme contained seven invited keynote talks, 40 oral presentations grouped into eight sessions, and one interactive workshop. The proceedings contain 29 chapters drawn from this material. There were 91 registered delegates drawn from 10 countries of the world. The field of knowledge transfer is still immature, but these proceedings demonstrate that InnovationKT conference is making a significant contribution to its academic development.

Author : Léonie J. Rennie,Grady Venville,John Wallace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136729409

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Knowledge that Counts in a Global Community by Léonie J. Rennie,Grady Venville,John Wallace Pdf

As the third millennium progresses, we are faced with increasing pressures relating to climate change and the sustainability of life on Earth. Concerned citizens are realizing that the responsibility to respond is both local and global. There is an increasing sense of urgency about the need to reform the processes of schooling and curriculum to better prepare students for global citizenship. Educators, policy makers and the wider community are seeking information about how to proceed with this reform effort, particularly how alternative and integrated approaches to curriculum can be used to engage students with the important issues of our time. Knowledge that Counts in a Global Community explores the potential contribution of curriculum integration in a context where school curricula are typically segregated by discipline. It offers curriculum integration as a powerful tool for educating young citizens so that they can understand and respond to global concerns. It argues for an informed citizenry who can think broadly across disciplines, and contribute sensibly and pragmatically to local problems with an eye on how this translates to making a global difference. In its examination of the twin themes of global knowledge and curriculum integration, the book explores: the nature of curriculum integration the nature of knowledge the nature of learning The authors reflect on these issues from perspectives gained by more than a decade of research in the area. Their in-depth, scholarly exploration and critical analysis of current approaches to curriculum, introduces educators and academics to contemporary ways of conceptualizing the complexities of, and relationships among curriculum integration, knowledge and learning. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize the central curriculum question, what kinds of outcomes do we want for students of the twenty-first century? This book will provide a valuable resource for academic educators, researchers, teachers and others interested in educational policy reform.

Author : Stephen W. Silliman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816549870

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Collaborating at the Trowel's Edge by Stephen W. Silliman Pdf

A fundamental issue for twenty-first century archaeologists is the need to better direct their efforts toward supporting rather than harming indigenous peoples. Collaborative indigenous archaeology has already begun to stress the importance of cooperative, community-based research; this book now offers an up-to-date assessment of how Native American and non-native archaeologists have jointly undertaken research that is not only politically aware and historically minded but fundamentally better as well. Eighteen contributors—many with tribal ties—cover the current state of collaborative indigenous archaeology in North America to show where the discipline is headed. Continent-wide cases, from the Northeast to the Southwest, demonstrate the situated nature of local practice alongside the global significance of further decolonizing archaeology. And by probing issues of indigenous participation with an eye toward method, theory, and pedagogy, many show how the archaeological field school can be retailored to address politics, ethics, and critical practice alongside traditional teaching and research methods. These chapters reflect the strong link between politics and research, showing what can be achieved when indigenous values, perspectives, and knowledge are placed at the center of the research process. They not only draw on experiences at specific field schools but also examine advances in indigenous cultural resource management and in training Native American and non-native students. Theoretically informed and practically grounded, Collaborating at the Trowel’s Edge is a virtual guide for rethinking field schools and is an essential volume for anyone involved in North American archaeology—professionals, students, tribal scholars, or avocationalists—as well as those working with indigenous peoples in other parts of the world. It both reflects the rapidly changing landscape of archaeology and charts new directions to ensure the ongoing vitality of the discipline.