Abstract
This chapter maps the evolution of my thinking about 'truth', 'knowledge', 'data' and their interconnections, with the ongoing impact of this upon a doctoral research study. My original understanding of these matters was influenced by 'scientific', 'social' and 'philosophical' approaches to research. I spent my undergraduate years in what is now called a School of Natural Sciences. There my outlook on the academic world of data and knowledge was formed by looking through the lens of 'reductionist'-'linear'-'scientific'-positivist' approaches to the world around me. My honours research saw a shift to include an element of qualitative thinking, and my current PhD research wholly adopts qualitative approaches (Parissi, 2007a). Having immersed myself into the various approaches to research, I view all of the above experience as explorations in helping to build a trans-methodology and transdisciplinary framework to understand the world.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Tackling wicked problems through the transdisciplinary imagination |
| Editors | Valerie A. Brown, Harris John A., Jacqueline Y. Russell |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Earthscan |
| Pages | 204-213 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781844079247 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- knowledge management
- sustainable development