Full Description
The availability of research methodologies and frameworks to facilitate different ways of gathering knowledge and performing research is often a matter of concern for early career researchers as well as advanced research scholars. Positioning Research, while identifying this gap, provides avenues that encompass differing cultural backgrounds and disciplines to enable exploration of research frameworks and shifting paradigms, considering the impact of social media and new forms of knowledge that assist real-time, global distribution of research.
The book highlights the possibilities of transition into 'the third space', where negotiation and dialogue are central to positioning research. It upholds the principle that different research methodologies are equally valid and valued in contributing to new knowledge. The book focuses on the contexts in which research questions are conceptualised and designed, and highlights the implications of research for the various partners and communities that participate in the research. It thus provides a cutting-edge framework for conducting multidisciplinary research.
Contents
Foreword - Joseph Lo Bianco
Introduction: Positioning Research - Margaret Kumar and Supriya Pattanayak
Perspectives from Early Career Researchers
Originality, Hybridity and Intra-paradigm Shift - Margaret Kumar
Interdisciplinary Research and the Early Career Researcher - Graeme Pye
Art, the Academy and Strategy - Cameron Bishop
Early Career Researcher's Peer Support Group - Ndungi wa Mungai
Doing Research with 'Others': Experiences of Difference and Commonality - Niranjala (Nina) Weerakkody
Researching Is Relating Time and Space - Jacques Boulet
Indigenous and New Knowledge Systems
Metaphors We Live by: Appreciating the Place of Language in Indigenous Research - Supriya Pattanayak
Positioning Indigenous Knowledge - Mark Rose
New Frontiers of Research: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Artistic Practice - Estelle Barrett
Aboriginal Spirituality and Its Relationship to the Positioning of Research - Terrence Kildea and Margaret Kumar
In-depth Methods for Portraying and Understanding Cultural Realities - Binod C. Agrawal
Theoretical Approaches and Case Study
Historicizing the Problematic Media Education - Chandrabhanu Pattanayak
The Use of Social Media and New Knowledge to Researchers in the New Age - M. J. Warren and S. Leitch
Developing Sustainable International Partnerships in Higher Education: A Case Study - Brenda Cherednichenko and Ian Robottom
Conclusion: Extrapolating Research - Margaret Kumar and Supriya Pattanayak
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