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Knowledge: How to get it and where to put it

Knowledge: How to get it and where to put it. Qualitative Methods 9/16/09. Ways of Seeing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfB-pUm3eI&feature=related. Piaget’s Schema. “knowledge is not a copy of reality” “to know an object is to act on it” Maturation

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Knowledge: How to get it and where to put it

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  1. Knowledge:How to get it and where to put it Qualitative Methods 9/16/09

  2. Ways of Seeing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfB-pUm3eI&feature=related

  3. Piaget’s Schema • “knowledge is not a copy of reality” • “to know an object is to act on it” • Maturation • Experience (physical and logical/mathematical) • Social transmission (language and education) • Self-regulation/cybernetics Piaget 1964

  4. Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences • Logical-mathematical • Linguistic • Musical • Spatial • Bodily-kinesthetic • Interpersonal • Intrapersonal Gardner 1989

  5. Educational Ethics • How does one measure intellect in an “intelligence-fair” way? • How do you design an education system to equally benefit all types of learners?

  6. Cross-cultural studies • Culture as schema-forming • Murdock and White 1969’s “Standard Cross-Cultural Sample” • “research that takes place across, or between, cultures and includes research undertaken by nonindigenous researchers into the lives of indigenous people” - Gibbs

  7. Dieting example: “take three-quarters of a two-thirds cup serving of cottage cheese” Brown , Collins, and Duguid 1989

  8. Situated Knowledge • “The activity in which knowledge is developed and deployed, it is now argued, is not separable from or ancillary to learning and cognition” Brown , Collins, and Duguid 1989

  9. Stereotypes (This American Life) • If he decided he wanted to write an ethnography of German culture, what would he had to have done to feel comfortable with his interpretations? http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1257

  10. Tundra Fire example

  11. Foresters Climate model of suitable moose habitat – orange = about 1 moose/sq. km Yellow represents used tribal lands according to customs provided by collaborator.

  12. Anthropologists • Colored blobs represent traditional hunting ranges of each village • Important resources: moose, caribou, berries, salmon, timber

  13. Demographers

  14. Alright… what’s going on?

  15. Ethics (Gibbs) • What are the major issues Gibbs brings up with cross-cultural research that we must have a strategy to deal with?

  16. Ethics (Gibbs) • Legitimacy • Researcher/researched relations • Intellectual property • Strategies Gibbs and whakawhanaungatanga use to deal with these? • Are you happy with these strategies?

  17. Taboo example (Colding, Folke) • Can you think of American taboos that contribute to conservation in the States? • How would you go about studying and applying these taboos to conservation policy? • Are taboos more/less effective in a country of mixed heritage?

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