Mike,
I am part of a large project ($6.2M, plus outside funding and
in-kind), looking at economic restructuring and its historical
impacts and possible changes in resources, mainly held at two
universities, and funded both by the Social Sciences and Natural
Sciences Research Council of Canada, in which natural and social
scientists, humanists, economists, and law faculty participate. Our
national council was very explicit that they did not want to have
research that just leads to papers and is valid in labs. They want to
have concrete findings that remain in or go back to the community, in
ways that the communities can do something with it. I think that the
Councils made it thereby very clear that the priority is knowledge
for the community/people...
Michael
At 8:16 AM -0700 6/4/01, Mike Cole wrote:
>Nate! What world are you inhabiting?
>
>You wrote: Ok practical concrete research is in now - everyone is doing it
>
>AT my university, and here i think I can easily include all branches of
>UC although I know my own local circumstances, not only is everyone not
>doing it, those who are doing it are at risk for getting fired for lack
>of scholarship.
>
>A central struggle, and I don't think only here, among social scientists
>is to make clear the legitimate RESEARCH/THEORY necessity of ingaging
>in practical research.
>
>Could those who live in other realities of the sort described by Nate
>speak up so those of us living in institutions where laboratory-style
>positivism continue to reign get a better field for why we are not in the
>mainstream?
>mike
--Wolff-Michael Roth
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