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Interest Matters: The Importance of Promoting Interest in Education
Interest is a powerful motivational process that energizes learning, guides academic and career trajectories, and is essential to academic success. Interest is both a psychological state of attention and affect toward a particular object or topic, and an enduring predisposition … Continue reading
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Transdisciplinary action research: A guiding framework for collaboration
How can graduate students work productively with each other and community partners? Many researchers and practitioners are engaging in transdisciplinarity, yet there is surprisingly little critical reflection about the processes and outcomes of transdisciplinarity, particularly from the perspectives of graduate … Continue reading
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Interdisciplinarity and synergy in collaborations
Problem-solving often requires crossing boundaries, such as those between disciplines. However, interdisciplinarity is not an objective in itself, but a means for creating synergy. When policy-makers call for interdisciplinarity, they may mean synergy. Synergy means that the whole offers more … Continue reading
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Ten principles of good interdisciplinary team work
Background: Interdisciplinary team work is increasingly prevalent, supported by policies and practices that bring care closer to the patient and challenge traditional professional boundaries. To date, there has been a great deal of emphasis on the processes of team work, and in … Continue reading
Interdisciplinarity as Teamwork
This essay discusses interdisciplinary research in the context of science policy and the practice of science. Comparisons between interdisciplinary research and other forms of cross-disciplinary research are made, and a brief discussion of the development of the concept of interdisciplinarity … Continue reading
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Anthropology in health research: from qualitative methods to multidisciplinarity
Qualitative methods are now common in research into the social and cultural dimensions of ill health and health care. These methods derive from several social sciences, but the concepts and knowledge from some disciplinary traditions are underused. Here we describe the potential contribution of anthropology, … Continue reading
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How can co-labouring improve transdisciplinary research?
What do we mean by co-labouring? What practices does it involve? How can it enhance interactions among researchers and key stakeholders in transdisciplinary research? Choosing the notion of ‘co-labouring’ in our transdisciplinary project stems from an awareness that creating alternative … Continue reading
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Reflectivity in Research Practice: An Overview of Different Perspectives
The article grounds on the assumption that researchers, in order to be not mere technicians but competent practitioners of research, should be able to reflect in a deep way. That means they should reflect not only on the practical acts … Continue reading
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Processes of Reflectivity: Knowledge Construction in Qualitative Research
The aim of this article is to suggest a useful approach demonstrating the focal role of processes of reflectivity in qualitative research. In particular, we distinguish between levels of analysis and analytical procedures for generating and organizing the interpretation of … Continue reading
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Academic Writing: A Practical Guide for Students
Ideal for overseas students studying at English-medium colleges and universities, this practical writing course enables international students to meet the required standard of writing and use an appropriate style for essays, exams, and dissertations. Newly revised and updated to include … Continue reading
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