Call and response: The importance of “telling truth slant.
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Date
2011
Authors
Cole, Ardra
Knowles, Gary
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Learning Landscapes
Abstract
Funding agencies are restructuring programs, rewriting priorities, and restating
accountability demands all founded on the very basic point that research funded by
public tax dollars must be relevant and accountable to diverse publics. This new wave
of accountability challenges researchers to “translate” and “mobilize” knowledge so
that research is understood by those publics and makes a difference in people’s lives.
While goals of research accessibility are laudable, we argue that researchers’ goals
need not be focused on finding better ways to translate knowledge for public consumption. Rather, the time has come for inquiry to be more about actively engaging
people in meaning making. As a community of researchers with long-standing commitment to using the arts in research as a vehicle for engagement, this is an opportunity for us to provide leadership in this area.
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Knowledge mobilization
Citation
Cole, A. L., & Knowles, J. G. (2011). Call and response: The importance of “telling truth slant.” Learning Landscapes, 4(2), 25-30. Retrieved from http://www.learninglandscapes.ca/images/documents/ll-no8-final-lr-links.pdf#page=25