Contesting Forms of Knowledge in Policy Deliberation Lessons from Disaster Coping Policies in Thailand

Educational strategies are designed to cope with and fulfill the multifarious pedagogical and educational needs of teachers and learners. Moreover, no educational plan can possibly yield the required results without incorporating suitable instructive strategies. This research paper advocates the role and importance of schemas in learning new forms of knowledge and data in the perspective of class room teaching-learning. Cognitive approach is adopted to understand how students learn new forms of knowledge and experiences through different mental processes, quite unlike that of behaviorism. The concept of schema helps us understand how learners can link new pieces of information to the already existing knowledge in their minds. The notion of ‘Constructivist Approach’ has been extracted from the field of educational psychology for triangulation. Extracts are taken from the textbooks of English used in matriculation and intermediate through purposive sampling. Their analysis shows that schemas can play a vital role in enhancing the learning experience and making new forms of knowledge a permanent part of the memory of students which is the ultimate goal of education.

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Conversation with a Truth Seeker

Psychoanalysis and History ◽

10.3366/pah.2006.8.1.161 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 161-170 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jaap Bos

Keyword(s):

History Of Psychoanalysis ◽

History Of ◽

Concept Of Truth ◽

Forms Of Knowledge

This paper is an invited response to Peter Rudnytsky's ‘Guardians of truth’ article. Taking issue with what are presented as fundamental theoretical and methodological caveats, this article discusses the question of when and how differing discourses on the history of psychoanalysis may or may not be compatible. In particular the author questions the validity of a concept of truth as defined from within a field of knowledge, to arrive at definitions of discourse and dialogue that can be useful to acquire new forms of knowledge.

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Forschungsperspektive »Interkulturalität«

Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie ◽

10.28937/1000106487 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 2008 (1) ◽

pp. 7-36 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Rolf Elberfeld

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

20Th Century ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Research Perspective ◽

The Usa ◽

Forms Of Knowledge

In the 20th century the European sciences have tried in different ways to develop post-colonial forms of knowledge. Since the 1920s, under headings such as »intercultural«, »multicultural« and »transcultural«, discourses have arisen in the USA and in Europe in which, until the present, new perspectives and structures in the sciences have developed. The article offers, on one hand, a discourse analysis of these three headings until 1980 and makes clear by way of examples how complicated and deep the challenges are for knowledge discourses in Europe within the scope of the research perspective of »interculturality«.

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Das Einhüllen und Fesseln des Körpers in den indoeuropäischen Kulturen: Zu einigen Metaphern des magischen Schutzes vor Toten und Wiedergeborenen

Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung ◽

10.28937/1000106441 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 45-60

Author(s):

Carmen Alfaro Giner

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Technical Level ◽

Human History ◽

Symbolic Meanings ◽

Forms Of Knowledge

Fäden, Seile und Textilien sind Elemente des Alltagslebens, die bereits früh in der Menschheitsgeschichte einen hohen technischen Entwicklungsstand erreicht haben. Das Spinnen des Fadens, eine der ältesten Formen des Wissens, scheint wie der Ursprung jeder Form der Technik untrennbar mit einer besonderen Mythologie verbunden zu sein. So müssen sich auch Fäden, Knoten und Gewebe, neben ihrer praktischen Anwendung, rasch mit symbolischen Bedeutungen aufgeladen haben. In diesem Beitrag sollen die Symboliken des Fadens, des Knotens und des Gewebes als Metaphern analysiert werden, die bisweilen mit dem Leben, bisweilen mit dem Tod in Verbindung stehen. </br></br>Threads, ropes and textiles are elements of everyday life, which have reached a high technical level of development early in human history. The spinning of the yarn, one of the oldest forms of knowledge, seems to be, like the origin of every form of art, inseparable from a particular mythology. Besides their practical use, threads, nodes and tissues must have been quickly charged with symbolic meanings. This article examines the symbolism of the thread, the node and the tissue as metaphors that are sometimes connected with life and sometimes with death.

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Non “Religious” Knowing in Pilgrimages to Sacred Sites

Journeys ◽

10.3167/jys.2020.210106 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 105-133

Author(s):

Evgenia Mesaritou

Keyword(s):

Sacred Sites ◽

Greek Cypriots ◽

Forms Of Knowledge ◽

Exclusive Focus

Abstract Even though pilgrimages may often be directed toward what can conventionally be seen as “religious” sacred sites, religious and ritual forms of knowledge and ignorance may not necessarily be the only, or even the most prominent, forms in their workings. Focusing on Greek Cypriots’ return pilgrimages to the Christian-Orthodox monastery of Apostolos Andreas (Karpasia) under the conditions of Cyprus's ongoing division, in this article I explore the non “religious” forms of knowing and ignoring salient to pilgrimages to sacred religious sites, the conditions under which they become relevant, and the risks associated with them. Showing how pilgrimages to the monastery of Apostolos Andreas are situated within a larger framework of seeing “our places,” I will argue that remembering and knowing these places is the type of knowledge most commonly sought out by pilgrims, while also exploring what the stakes of not knowing/forgetting them may be felt to be. An exclusive focus on “religious” forms of knowledge and ignorance would obscure the ways in which pilgrimage is often embedded in everyday social and political concerns.

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The “Legitimacy of Chinese Philosophy” Debate and the Global Extension of Disciplinary Knowledge

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190253752.013.23 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 699-717

Author(s):

Leigh K. Jenco

Keyword(s):

Political Theory ◽

Chinese Philosophy ◽

Academic Discipline ◽

Disciplinary Knowledge ◽

Ongoing Debate ◽

Comparative Political Theory ◽

Chinese Thought ◽

Forms Of Knowledge

This chapter argues that the ongoing debate about the “legitimacy of Chinese philosophy” (Zhongguo zhexue hefaxing) raises issues relevant to the globalization of knowledge. On its surface, the debate concerns whether Chinese thought can be meaningfully understood as “philosophy”; more generally, it asks how, in the very process of enabling their translation into presumably more “modern” languages of intellectual expression, the terms of a specific academic discipline shape and constrain the development of particular forms of knowledge. The debate reveals the power inequalities that underlie attempts to include culturally marginalized bodies of thought within established disciplines and suggests the range of alternatives that are silenced or forgotten when this “inclusion” takes place. Even contemporary invocations of “Chinese philosophy” are often unable to comprehend the stakes of the debate for many of its Chinese participants, who link the debate to enduring questions about the capacity of indigenous Chinese academic terms to compete successfully with Euro-American ones. These debates may illuminate questions currently motivating comparative political theory.

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Environment and its Forms of Knowledge: The Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops in India

Journal of Developing Societies ◽

10.1177/0169796x211001235 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 167-183

Author(s):

Aniket Aga

Keyword(s):

Power Relations ◽

Genetically Modified ◽

Genetically Modified Crops ◽

Gm Crops ◽

Regulatory Regime ◽

Democratic Participation ◽

Environment Protection ◽

Policy Decisions ◽

Inherent Ambiguity ◽

Forms Of Knowledge

A fierce controversy over genetically modified (GM) crops has been raging in India for over two decades. Analyzing India’s regulatory regime for GM crops, this article focuses on the modes through which state bureaucracies know the environment. It argues that two epistemologies - scientific and legal-administrative – underpin environment protection. By unraveling the course of regulatory disputes, I demonstrate that bureaucracies are not just hierarchically divided but are also segmented by horizontal, functional specializations. There is thus an inherent ambiguity lodged between environment as a technical discourse and as statecraft. This ambiguity both fosters and constrains democratic participation in policy decisions and can even partially disrupt power relations in unanticipated ways.

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The limits of literature as liberation: Colonialism, governmentality, and the humanist subject

Management Learning ◽

10.1177/1350507620978976 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 135050762097897

Author(s):

M Greedharry

Keyword(s):

Organizational Structures ◽

Literary Text ◽

Literary Study ◽

The People ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Literature ◽

Forms Of Knowledge ◽

Colonial Governmentality

Scholars in both the humanities and management remain attached to the idea that literature will set us free. Whether this is because literary text seems unconstrained by our epistemes or reading literature offers a practice through which we will be able to shape ourselves into the people we want to be, many of us understand literature as something that offers us a chance to emancipate ourselves from the regime of knowledge we have now. Nevertheless, as the history of literature as colonial governmentality suggests, literature and literary study have been crucial forms of knowledge-power for creating and maintaining organizational structures as well as producing the willing subjects that make those structures work. This being so, how is it that are we still interested in using literature to make “better” people, whether the people in question are ”better” managers or their subordinates, rather than reorganizing literary study in the contemporary university?

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Schools of Empiricism

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook ◽

10.1515/jbwg-2021-0010 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

pp. 261-289

Author(s):

Andreas Friedolin Lingg

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Sixteenth Century ◽

Personal Experience ◽

Economic Transformation ◽

Mining District ◽

Late Medieval ◽

Scientific Observation ◽

Useful Knowledge ◽

Mining Town ◽

Forms Of Knowledge

Abstract Recent research emphasizes that empiricist approaches already emerged long before the seventeenth and eighteenth century. While many of these contributions focus on specific professions, it is the aim of this article to supplement this discourse by describing certain social spaces that fostered empiricist attitudes. A particularly interesting example in this respect is the mining region of the Erzgebirge (Saxony) in the fifteenth and sixteenth century. The following article will use this mining district as a kind of historical laboratory, as a space not only for scientific observation but also as a structure within which specific forms of knowledge were socially tested, to show how the economic transformation of this region supported the rise of characteristic elements of empiricist thinking. It is common practice to link the appraisal of useful knowledge, (personal) experience and the distrust towards (scholastic) authorities in those days with only small minorities. By addressing not only the struggles of the commercial elites but also the challenges faced by the average resident of a mining town, this paper tries to add to this view by demonstrating how entire masses of people inhabiting the late medieval Erzgebirge were affected by and schooled to think in empiricist ways.

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Knowledge Mobilization in the Beaver Hills Biosphere, Alberta, Canada

Land ◽

10.3390/land9110424 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (11) ◽

pp. 424

Author(s):

Clara-Jane Blye ◽

Elizabeth A. Halpenny ◽

Glen T. Hvenegaard ◽

Dee Patriquin

Keyword(s):

Biosphere Reserve ◽

Working Relationships ◽

Knowledge Mobilization ◽

Focus Group Interviews ◽

Types Of Knowledge ◽

Loss Of Autonomy ◽

Different Types ◽

Time Periods ◽

Group Interviews ◽

Forms Of Knowledge

This study explores how knowledge was and is mobilized to advance the objectives of the Beaver Hills Biosphere Reserve, located in Alberta, Canada. Established in 2016, a 12-year collaborative effort worked to establish the biosphere reserve and achieve formal UNESCO designation. Subsequent efforts to grow the newly established biosphere reserve have accelerated in recent years. Our study documented how different types of knowledge were accessed, created, curated, and shared between partners during these two time periods. Focus group interviews were conducted with 14 participants, who are affiliated with Beaver Hills Biosphere Reserve partner organizations, and revealed the following findings: (1) not all knowledge is equally valued or understood; (2) partnerships are highly valued, and were essential to successful knowledge mobilization, but were stronger among individuals rather than organizations; (3) fear of the loss of autonomy and potential complications due to the establishment of a biosphere reserve slowed the exchange of information and engagement by some regional actors; and (4) knowledge mobilization is and was impeded by staff and agency capacity, finances, and time scarcity. This was further complicated by entrenched norms of practice, existing successful working relationships impeding the development of new partnerships, and embracing alternative forms of knowledge.

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