Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research
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Name two reasons why we need different approaches with different combination of disciplines
2. Disciplinary knowledge production, there can be knowledge across disciplines. Interdisciplinary research might help with this problem.
What is transdisciplinary research?
What are the two issues of the gap between science and society?
2. Demand gap. The research currently done might not be what the society needs. We need to listen better
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What is the cause of the gap between science and society?
demand gap: listen better
implementation gap: explain better
What is multidisciplinary research?
What is interdisciplinary research?
What is the difference between fundamental and applied dimention?
applied dimention: aims to research the effectiveness of interventions, surgeries, medicine
Name an example of a research question from a monodisciplinary and applied dimension
Name an example of a research question from a monodisciplinary and fundamental dimension
Name an example of a research question from a interdisciplinary and applied dimension
Name an example of a research question from a interdisciplinary and fundamental approach
What is compulsory participation?
What is the problem with compulsory participation?
Name 3 purposes of participatory action research
2. To increase the knowledge of participants
3. To promote social change
With which two aspects of learning theory is PAR associated?
- Peulo Friere (predagogy of the oppressed), in which he describes a process of education for marginalized groups that involve mutual learning among teachers and students.
What are 4 assumptions about the PAR process that are not always true?
2. All people gan learn basic research skills. --> simply not true.
3. Equal partnerships between researchers and participants can be established.
4. PAR related activities help empower members of powerless groups. --> maybe there will be nothing done with he research. Or they will feel regret of participating in the research.
Name 5 drawbacks from participatory action research
- often you dont know the outcome, so its hard to convince funding.
- projects are often fairly unique and difficult to generalize
- romanticised, as if it is always good. But there might not be something done with the research.
- sometimes compulsary, which is problematic.
What is the difference between participatory video and a documentary?
documentarys are expected to meet eastetic standards, with PV, the process is less concerned with appearance than with content.
What is the difference between interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary.
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