scholarly journals THE TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF CREATIVE ART PRACTICES IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyong-Mi Paek
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Creative Art ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project

A growing body of literature addressing the need for educational innovations has also stressed the value of interdisciplinary approaches that incorporate art into teaching and learning. This paper aims to extend educators’ understanding of art–science interactions by presenting an empirical study that explores a unique art residency program created on the campus of a university that specializes in science and technology. The study reviews the art practices of three contemporary artists who participated in a program developed in conjunction with an interdisciplinary research project seeking ways to build an ecologically sustainable community and operated by a renewable energy resource-based economic system. Data that include observations, artist talks, and in-person interviews were collected from multiple sources during the residency to understand the distinguished processes involved in the development of individual art projects. A follow-up cross-case analysis revealed a few notable characteristics: connecting art with life through waste recycling, process-oriented practices highlighting resource circulation, and creating value using bricolage strategies. Regarding educational implications, discussions centered upon the potential transformational space identified from the creative art practices in the context of interdisciplinary research.

scholarly journals Creative Networks of Practice Using Web 2.0 Tools

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-53
Author(s):  
Jukka Orava ◽  
Pete Worrall
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Learning ◽  
Networks Of Practice ◽  
Learning Event

This paper examines the professional implications for teachers and managers in new and evolving forms of professional development using Web 2.0 tools in a European context. Research findings are presented from the “Creative Use of Media” learning event developed through a European eTwinning Learning Lab initiative in spring of 2009. The Creative use of the Media online learning event supported a series of initiatives celebrating the European Year of Creativity and Innovation and involved 135 participants from 27 countries. The key objective was to introduce a range of learning themes constructed around a phenomenon-based inquiry model, which supported interdisciplinary approaches and collaborative online learning methodologies to stimulate new teaching and learning rationales. Digital Web 2.0 technology was used as an independent creative medium and as a powerful facilitating tool to enhance and blend with the more traditional forms of visual, audiovisual and multimedia inquiry. In developing models encapsulating risk taking and experimentation this online learning project supported a general principle that future education models and professional development would be based on social learning and “customer-driven collaborative knowledge building” in relation to open source materials.

scholarly journals True and pseudo-interdisciplinary researches: The principles of a system-structural approach to the medical-and-psychological projects planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
N.E. Kharlamenkova ◽  
N.A. Yeskin ◽  
A.I. Snetkov ◽  
A.D. Akinshina ◽  
S.Y. Batrakov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Object Of Study

The actual problem of interdisciplinary projects organizing is discussed. The purpose of the article is to justify the principles of planning and conducting the interdisciplinary medico-psychological research, in identifying its features in comparison with pseudo-interdisciplinary approaches. Types of interdisciplinary research are examined, distinctions are made between the true and pseudo-interdisciplinary approaches. The principles of true interdisciplinary research are formulated — the principle of choosing the object of study, the principle of determining the coordinates of the subject area of research, the hypothetico-deductive principle of interdisciplinary research and the principle of unity of interdisciplinary project methodology. The content of each principle is revealed by the example of medico-psychological research currently being carried out by the team of employees of the Institute of Psychology RAS and the National Medical Research Center of Traumatology and Orthopedics named after N.N. Priorov. It is shown that the system-structural approach to conducting the interdisciplinary medico-psychological research consists in coordinating theoretical constructs and empirical variables in accordance with the given coordinates of the research subject field and specific criteria for assessing the physical and mental state of the object of study. It is shown that the selected criteria allow, without leveling the specifics of individual scientific disciplines — medicine and psychology — to form a unified subject field of research and to develop an approach relevant for solving scientific and practical problems.

Developing the Methodology for an Applied, Interdisciplinary Research Project: Documenting the Journey Toward Philosophical Clarity

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 450-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loene M. Howes
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽  
Logic Of Inquiry ◽  
Methodological Refinement

Methodologists have urged researchers who use mixed methods to justify their methodological choices and provide greater clarity about the philosophical underpinnings and implications of their approaches. This article outlines the reasoning process undertaken in an endeavor to develop philosophical clarity for an applied, interdisciplinary, mixed methods research project about the communication of scientific evidence in the legal system. I used Greene’s domains of methodology for social inquiry as a framework for addressing reflexive questions about assumptions. Flowing from the domains of values and philosophies, the logic of inquiry was developed before the implications for the integration of findings and reporting of research were outlined. Early engagement in reflexive questioning provided a foundation for methodological refinement throughout the ongoing research journey.

Do We Need an Interdisciplinary Approach to Bring Consumers' Desires to e-Market?

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Patrick Letouze ◽  
David N. Prata
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Consumer Theory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project

In 2012, the internet advertising revenue in the United States of America reached a total of 36.6 billion dollars, a growth of 15.2% when compared to 2011. The efficiency of a marketing strategy relies in the ability to understand and to direct the consumers' desires. In this work, the authors propose an approach that combines the Internet-Based Information Consumer Theory (IBICT) with semiotics to bring consumers' desires to e-Market. Hence, we present IBICT's framework as a collective network set based on a semiotic human-machine approach. For implementation purposes, we propose a text mining architecture towards IBICT's framework, which leads to an IBICT's architecture, and an Interdisciplinary Research Project Management (IRPM) approach to determine IBICT's dimensions.

scholarly journals ‘The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper’ (WB Yeats): enhancing resilience among deaf young people in South Africa through photography and filmmaking

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 416-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alys Young ◽  
Lorenzo Ferrarini ◽  
Andrew Irving ◽  
Claudine Storbeck ◽  
Robyn Swannack ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
South African ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The World ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project

This article concerns deaf children and young people living in South Africa who are South African Sign Language users and who participated in an interdisciplinary research project using the medium of teaching film and photography with the goal of enhancing resilience. Specifically, this paper explores three questions that emerged from the deaf young people’s experience and involvement with the project: (i) What is disclosed about deaf young people’s worldmaking through the filmic and photographic modality? (ii) What specific impacts do deaf young people’s ontologically visual habitations of the world have on the production of their film/photographic works? (iii) How does deaf young people’s visual, embodied praxis through film and photography enable resilience? The presentation of findings and related theoretical discussion is organised around three key themes: (i) ‘writing’ into reality through photographic practice, (ii) filmmaking as embodied emotional praxis and (iii) enhancing resilience through visual methodologies. The discussion is interspersed with examples of the young people’s own work.

scholarly journals Coworking, a Way to Achieve Sustainable Mobility? Designing an Interdisciplinary Research Project

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 7161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Lejoux ◽  
Aurore Flipo ◽  
Nathalie Ortar ◽  
Nicolas Ovtracht ◽  
Stéphanie Souche-Lecorvec ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽  
Transportation Studies

Sustainable mobility has been one of the central paradigms of research in the field of transport and mobility for several decades. However, the implications of adopting the concept of “sustainable mobility” for the conduct of interdisciplinary research has been little discussed within the relevant research community. Research in the field of transport and mobility has nevertheless been the setting for major debates in recent years on the question of interdisciplinarity, or even transdisciplinarity, with the emergence of mobility studies as opposed to transportation studies. The objective of this paper is to show, empirically, how researchers who are specialised in mobility and transport issues, but who belong to different disciplines (anthropology, computer science, economics, geomatics, sociology and urban planning) have sought to build an interdisciplinary research project—which is currently ongoing—around the links between the development of coworking, which is a new way of organising work, mobility and sustainability. This paper sets out to highlight cross-fertilisation between disciplines, the issues raised, and the difficulties encountered. As such, it provides an account that is as faithful as possible to our experience of conducting interdisciplinary research in the area of sustainable mobility.

Relational Dialectics in Community-Rooted Research and Partnerships

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Joy L. Hart ◽  
Lindsey A. Wood ◽  
Jack Pfeiffer ◽  
Delana Gilkey ◽  
Austin Zachary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Relational Dialectics ◽  
Dialectical Tensions ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project

Improving health equity as well as overall community health rests in large part on partnerships, especially those between researchers and community members and groups. Employing the theory of relational dialectics, we analyze relationships in an interdisciplinary research project examining how community health is influenced by increases in neighborhood greening. Relational dialectics posits that opposing tensions, such as desires not only to be connected but also to remain independent, shape relationships and are evidenced and negotiated through communication. We provide examples of dialectical tensions in a community-rooted research project and lessons that we have learned from this work.

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