Transdisciplinary Research – a Distinct Mode of Knowledge Production? Problem-Orientation, Knowledge Integration and Participation in Transdisciplinary Research Projects Transdisziplinäre Forschung – ein eigenständiger Modus der Wissensproduktion? Problemorientierung, Wissensintegration und Partizipation in transdisziplin?ren Forschungsprojekten

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Zierhofer ◽  
Paul Burger
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Distinct Mode ◽  
Problem Orientation ◽  
Production Problem

A study of practice based design research models from knowledge integration perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Honghai LI ◽  
Jun CAI
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Design Innovation

The transformation of China's design innovation industry has highlighted the importance of design research. The design research process in practice can be regarded as the process of knowledge production. The design 3.0 mode based on knowledge production MODE2 has been shown in the Chinese design innovation industry. On this cognition, this paper establishes a map with two dimensions of how knowledge integration occurs in practice based design research, which are the design knowledge transfer and contextual transformation of design knowledge. We use this map to carry out the analysis of design research cases. Through the analysis, we define four typical practice based design research models from the viewpoint of knowledge integration. This method and the proposed model can provide a theoretical basis and a path for better management design research projects.

scholarly journals Disentangling Transdisciplinarity

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-72
Author(s):  
Wolgang Zierhofer ◽  
Paul Burger
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Mode 2 ◽  
Analysis Of Knowledge ◽  
Epistemological Point ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge ◽  
Oriented Research

Within the discourse promoting transdisciplinary research (TDR), also referred to as Mode 2 science, it is often claimed that scientifically coping with urgent life-world problems calls for interdisciplinary participatory research (or TDR), and that this represents a new mode of knowledge production. Although we look upon TDR as a fertile innovation, we have epistemological and methodological concerns in treating TDR as a (singular) new mode of knowledge production. Hence, our paper attempts to contribute to clarifying the meaning of TDR from an epistemological and methodological perspective. We develop a conceptual scheme for the analysis of knowledge production in problem-oriented research, which is subsequently applied to an empirical analysis of 16 transdisciplinary research projects. In our analysis, we focus upon forms of knowledge integration and participation. The results indicate that, from an epistemological point of view, TDR does not represent a specific mode of knowledge production, but a rather heterogeneous conglomeration of different research activities. In order to evaluate the epistemic potential of TDR, we conclude that it would be wise to disentangle it methodologically into various types of research objectives and related research instruments.

scholarly journals Una memoria organizacional para gestionar información y conocimiento de proyectos de investigación de instituciones venezolanas [An organizational memory to manage information and knowledge of research projects from Venezuelan institutions]

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esmeralda Ramos ◽  
Iván Flores ◽  
Haydemar Núñez
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Memory Management ◽  
Organizational Memory ◽  
Memory Structure ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Management Knowledge ◽  
Representation Structure ◽  
Access To Knowledge

Resumen Se propone en este trabajo una memoria organizacional que estructura y organiza la gran cantidad de conocimiento, experticia e información gerencial y técnica que generan los investigadores durante la ejecución de los proyectos de investigación que se realizan en instituciones venezolanas. El modelo que define la estructura de la memoria, se fundamenta en los diferentes documentos que acompañan el desarrollo de los proyectos, a saber: documentos de descripción, especificación avances, publicaciones y finiquito; además incorpora información que caracteriza a los investigadores involucrados. La memoria proporciona una estructura de representación flexible que simplifica el acceso al conocimiento generado, facilitando de esta manera el proceso de producción de conocimiento y permitirá realizar seguimiento de las experiencias de los investigadores, proporcionando directrices para resolver problemas en las instituciones de investigación del Estado venezolano. Palabras claveProyecto de investigación, Memorias de proyectos, gestión de conocimiento   Abstract This paper proposes an organizational memory to structure and organize the knowledge generated by the researchers during the execution of their projects in Venezuelan institutions. The model that defines the memory structure is based on documents that accompany the development of projects: descriptions, specifications, progress, publications and settlements. Also, it includes information that characterizes the researchers involved. The memory provides a flexible representation structure which simplifies access to knowledge generated. In this way, facilitate the process of knowledge production and allow for tracking the experiences of researchers, providing guidelines for solving problems in the research institutions of the Venezuelan state.KeywordResearch projects, Project memory, management knowledge

The transdisciplinary health research apparatus: A Baradian account of knowledge boundaries and beyond

2020 ◽  
pp. 136345932096142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Thorpe ◽  
Marianne Clark ◽  
Julie Brice ◽  
Stacy Sims
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Low Energy Availability

This paper engages with new materialist theory to reimagine transdisciplinary health research. In particular, we draw upon Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism and concept of apparatus to rethink the processes of doing transdisciplinary research. A Baradian inspired approach to transdisciplinarity encourages us to not only explore ways of knowing health phenomena differently by working across disciplines, but also to pay close attention to the politics and practices in such research. We offer a case study based on a two-year transdisciplinary research project focused on the health condition known as Low Energy Availability (LEA) in sportswomen. Through this case we highlight three key ways that Barad’s concept of apparatus helped us know transdisciplinarity differently: (1) Reading disciplines through each other, (2) Intra-actions and the everyday performativity of disciplinary boundaries, and (3) Troubling the boundaries of the apparatus. Ultimately this paper illustrates the value in feminist new materialist conceptual tools for encouraging different questions of transdisciplinary research as ethico-onto-epistemological practices, processes, and politics of knowledge production.

scholarly journals Participation or pedagogy? Ambiguities and tensions surrounding the facilitation of children as researchers

Childhood ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chae-Young Kim
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Educational Benefits ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Children As Researchers

Ambiguities and tensions can arise when children are facilitated to act as ‘primary researchers’ concerning whether this is primarily to support their ‘participation’ in knowledge production and, with the knowledge produced, in relevant decision-making processes or whether it is mainly for any educational benefits. This article considers these ambiguities and tensions theoretically and by using evidence from a study where English primary school children were supported to conduct their own research projects. It concludes that, while the boundaries between children’s research as participation and pedagogy can be ambiguous, it should not be promoted for its potential educational benefits alone.

In-between practice: working in the ‘thirdspace’ of sensory and multimodal methodology

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Hurdley ◽  
Bella Dicks
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Sensory Ethnography ◽  
New Space

This article discusses how emergent sensory and multimodal methodologies can work in interaction to produce innovative social enquiry. A juxtaposition of two research projects — an ethnography of corridors and a mixed methods study of multimodal authoring and ‘reading’ practices — opened up this encounter. Sensory ethnography within social research methods aims to create empathetic, experiential ways of knowing participants’ and researchers’ worlds. The linguistic field of multimodality offers a rather different framework for research attending to the visual, material and acoustic textures of participants’ interactions. While both these approaches address the multidimensional character of social worlds, the ‘sensory turn’ centres the sensuous, bodied person — participant, researcher and audience/reader — as the ‘place’ for intimate, affective forms of knowing. In contrast, multimodal knowledge production is premised on multiple analytic gaps — between modes and media, participants and materials, recording and representation. Eliciting the tensions between sensorial closeness and modal distances offers a new space for reflexive research practice and multiple ways of knowing social worlds.

scholarly journals System Methodology as a Conceptual Basis of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary research

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
S. G. Zbrishchak
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Knowledge Engineering ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The Common ◽  
System Methodology

The paper is devoted to the methodological tasks of conducting transdisciplinary research of TI, that have been leading to the tasks of integrating the knowledge of various stakeholders. The methodological framework of the study includes a systematic approach, the provisions of knowledge engineering and social psychology. The methodological basis of TI is formulated, the essence of which is the identification, coordination and integration of individual and collective structures of knowledge. The requirements to the procedure of knowledge integration of different stakeholders are defined: to form an understanding of the complexity of problems, to take into account the diversity of the real world and scientific perception of problems, the link of abstract and specific knowledge of a particular situation, the use of the concept of the common good as a regulatory basis for harmonizing multiple values and norms. Conceptual models are considered as an integration tool. The theoretical and practical significance of the study lies in the rationale for the application of methods of joint conceptual modeling as a tool for integration and coordination of various types of knowledge and organization of communication processes in a stakeholders group.

The logic and integration of coproductive research approaches

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Lindhult ◽  
Karin Axelsson
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Family ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to clarify the methodological logic of coproductive research approaches like action research, collaborative research, interactive research and participatory research in a way that can clarify its effectiveness and scientific qualities in high quality knowledge production, and show the way that it can be integrated with institutionalized textbook science.Design/methodology/approachThe paper clarifies the character of coproduction as research methodology concept, the logic of coproductive research approaches, and its characteristics compared to quantitative and qualitative methodology. A model for characterizing research approaches from leading textbook social science is developed to specify the character of coproductive research approaches and support integration in mainstream research methodology discussions.FindingsThe paper develops a research methodology framework for coproductive logic and approaches to research, to support the integration of this type of approaches in mainstream research methodology.Research limitations/implicationsThe developed model of coproductive research approaches is not empirically described. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to test and further develop the model in relation to cases and designs of research projects.Practical implicationsThe paper is helpful for guiding the design of coproductive research in practice, i.e., in research project development or in research methodology education.Social implicationsThe development of coproductive research approaches supports making science relevant and useful for solving pressing problems and improving social conditions. It also is enabling stakeholders to participate in research and development processes, thus the democratization of research and knowledge production.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to integration of the family of coproductive approaches in mainstream research methodology discussion through the development and elaboration of a framework for organizing the description and development of coproductive research approaches. The aim is that the framework is valuable for both academics, practitioners and students in designing coproductive research projects.

Interdisciplinarity in the Fields of Law, Justice, and Criminology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Henry
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Effective Practice ◽  
Disciplinary Knowledge ◽  
Different Levels

Several models of interdisciplinarity exist in law, justice, and criminology. In law, knowledge integration is by hybridization with other disciplines (e.g., law and sociology); each contextualizes the framework of rules and procedures. Interdisciplinarity challenges law’s effective practice and complicates its penchant for logical simplicity. Criminology’s engagement with interdisciplinarity is grounded in multidisciplinary explanations of crime, integrative attempts to produce comprehensive analytical explanatory frameworks, and attempts to transcend the limits of organized disciplinary knowledge production. Criminology’s thirty-year dalliance with interdisciplinarity raises questions of whether disciplines embody interdisciplinarity, and what precisely should be integrated: concepts, propositions, or theories that address different levels of analysis (e.g., micro-meso-macro). Questions are raised about how integration should occur, in what sequence, and with what effects on causality. Many of these issues are illustrated in Robert Agnew’s Toward a Unified Criminology. Transdisciplinary approaches question what counts as knowledge and focus on multiple “knowledge formations.”

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