“Ways of knowing” in food studies

Experts ' ways of knowing

Collaborative ways of knowing: issues in facilitation

ABSTRACT This paper describes a detailed analysis of a student-centered problem-based learning group. The focus of this analysis is to understand the goals and strategies of an expert facilitator. This was accomplished by examining the questions and statements that the students and facilitators generated and inferring the facilitator’s goals and strategies. Studying facilitation in a face to fa...

Modern and Postmodern Ways of Knowing

Despite significant resistance, psychology is being dragged into the postmodern era. While many debate whether the postmodern era has officially begun, others argue that the postmodern era has already past by. This said, the emergent consensus is that these are postmodern times. Much of contemporary Western culture and academia is beginning to embrace this paradigm shift, though the field of ps...

Ways of knowing, learning, and developing.

The information age presents great opportunity to move from data to information to knowledge and potentially to go further to generate understanding and wisdom. As information is generated in ever smaller segments, however, and as we use information for increasingly narrow purposes, our understanding of the world is becoming more and more fragmented.1* Stunted development along this data-inform...

Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment

It is rare enough in human history that fundamentally new ways of working are developed, which changed the way in which information was gathered, processed, stored, and reused. When we developed speech, writing, and printing, new forms of action at a distance over time became possible (Clanchy, 1993; Goody, 1987). It now seems natural to update this triad by adding the internet. It is clear tha...