Governments across the world rationalize interdisciplinarity as an effective strategy for answering complex problems of social importance, drawing on large investments of resources to technical and biomedical sectors. I have identified this rationale as part of specific discursive relations and subsequently troubled its dominance through an exploration of how it has been authorized, and how faculty and administrators negotiate subjectification in engineering and medicine where this discourse dominates. Neo-liberal approaches to knowledge-production are deconstructed and analyzed. An archive was assembled of key texts pertaining to interdisciplinarity including documents produced by the OECD, the Canadian federal and Ontario provincial governments, the University of Toronto (UofT), academics and the popular press. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of these texts provided a specific historical context for interviews conducted with 20 faculty and administrators identified as interdisciplinary knowledge-makers. Subsequently, a situated analysis of how discourse is embodied and experienced was developed and applied to the whole archive. Four inter-related concepts were identified as making-up the popular discourse of interdisciplinarity: diversify-collaborate-innovate-integrate. According to this narrative, knowledge-makers are expected to diversify through collaboration in order to innovate and produce knowledge that is useful and marketable. From the discovery of insulin to the establishment of the MaRS discovery district, knowledge-making examples from UofT are analyzed to identify the social relations that make the idea possible that researchers should address problems of ‘relevance’. I argue that interdisciplined subjects are ‘facilitated’ to fulfill this popular narrative by management approaches that capitalize on intrinsic notions of ‘making-a-difference’. Concurrently, different narratives of interdisciplinarity are embodied and promoted as individuals negotiate ontological and epistemological issues in their daily practice. This research contributes to the refinement of Foucauldian discourse analysis, and informs scholarship on the effects of neoliberal approaches to knowledge-making and the professionalization projects of engineering and medicine.

Governments across the world rationalize interdisciplinarity as an effective strategy for answering complex problems of social importance, drawing on large investments of resources to technical and biomedical sectors. I have identified this rationale as part of specific discursive relations and subsequently troubled its dominance through an exploration of how it has been authorized, and how faculty and administrators negotiate subjectification in engineering and medicine where this discourse dominates. Neo-liberal approaches to knowledge-production are deconstructed and analyzed. An archive was assembled of key texts pertaining to interdisciplinarity including documents produced by the OECD, the Canadian federal and Ontario provincial governments, the University of Toronto (UofT), academics and the popular press. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of these texts provided a specific historical context for interviews conducted with 20 faculty and administrators identified as interdisciplinary knowledge-makers. Subsequently, a situated analysis of how discourse is embodied and experienced was developed and applied to the whole archive. Four inter-related concepts were identified as making-up the popular discourse of interdisciplinarity: diversify-collaborate-innovate-integrate. According to this narrative, knowledge-makers are expected to diversify through collaboration in order to innovate and produce knowledge that is useful and marketable. From the discovery of insulin to the establishment of the MaRS discovery district, knowledge-making examples from UofT are analyzed to identify the social relations that make the idea possible that researchers should address problems of ‘relevance’. I argue that interdisciplined subjects are ‘facilitated’ to fulfill this popular narrative by management approaches that capitalize on intrinsic notions of ‘making-a-difference’. Concurrently, different narratives of interdisciplinarity are embodied and promoted as individuals negotiate ontological and epistemological issues in their daily practice. This research contributes to the refinement of Foucauldian discourse analysis, and informs scholarship on the effects of neoliberal approaches to knowledge-making and the professionalization projects of engineering and medicine.

Orientador: Sílvio Ancizár Sanchéz Gamboa / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T16:18:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_RegisHenriquedosReis_D.pdf: 5758810 bytes, checksum: c19e91262db6e4984ac8777d39e8e1cb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Este estudo caracterizou-se como uma pesquisa bibliográfico-documental, de caráter histórico-filosófico, sobre as teses em Educação Especial desenvolvidas nos cursos de doutorado em Educação e Educação Física do estado de São Paulo, no período de 1985 a 2009. Mais precisamente, objetivamos analisar, a partir das tendências teórico-filosóficas de deficiência e/ou diferença, as implicações epistemológicas e ontológicas das teses que são objeto do nosso estudo, levando em consideração suas interrelações com os determinantes sócio-político-econômicos. Pois ainda são escassos os estudos que têm como objeto a própria pesquisa em Educação Especial, sob uma perspectiva histórico-filosófica e que, ao se vincularem ao campo da Epistemologia, adquirem importância no âmbito da produção científica educacional, no momento em que ocorre um aumento significativo dessa produção em termos quantitativos, mas com sua qualidade tornando-se questionável. Nesse sentido, estudos sobre as tendências teórico-filosóficas acerca da pesquisa produzida, bem como suas implicações epistemológicas e ontológicas, e seus pressupostos gnosiológicos e filosóficos ajudariam a entender alguns elementos importantes que determinam a qualidade da pesquisa. Isso porque os pesquisadores, para conseguirem um domínio confiável das técnicas e dos métodos, precisam compreender a articulação lógica de ambos com os pressupostos teóricos e epistemológicos, assim como ter clareza das implicações filosóficas das diversas opções científicas que realizam. Assim, entendemos que a garantia de pesquisas com melhor qualidade pode estar no conhecimento que o pesquisador tem dos fundamentos epistemológicos e ontológicos que orientam o desenvolvimento da sua investigação científica. Diante disso, a estrutura lógico-gnosiológica deste estudo compreendeu a análise do texto, reflexão e crítica a respeito dos elementos que compõem a produção científica, abrangendo não somente aspectos lógicos, históricos, conforme indicados na "Matriz Epistemológica", mas buscando entender, entre outros pontos, como o conhecimento na área de Educação Especial se constituiu. Para tanto, consubstanciamo-nos em categorias da dialética materialista, principalmente a da totalidade, do lógico e o histórico, do abstrato e o concreto e da contradição. Assim, os resultados obtidos neste estudo e as informações sistematizadas ao longo de seu desenvolvimento demonstraram que é necessário se olhar com preocupação e cautela para as teses analisadas, mas sendo possível vê-las com otimismo. A cautela e a preocupação estão relacionadas ao predomínio de estudos pautados no realismo empírico, que visam à adequação empírica e à utilidade instrumental da teoria. Já o otimismo pode advir da análise que está emergindo desde a segunda metade dos anos 1980 com estudos consubstanciados no realismo científico e crítico. Estes estão empenhados no desenvolvimento de suas análises, na apreensão da educação como parte da organização social (Educação como mediação), contribuindo para a compreensão da problemática educacional das pessoas com necessidades especiais e, principalmente, para a análise objetiva e crítica das políticas de equidade social. Além disso, a produção de teses em Educação Especial já se consolidou e vem se expandido na pós-graduação em Educação e Educação Física, respectivamente. Também a identificação de aspectos técnico-metodológicos e teóricos indicou que a pesquisa em Educação Especial vem se aproximando dos problemas da educação escolar brasileira e dos movimentos sociais de luta pela escola pública. / Abstract: This study is a bibliographic-documental research, of historic-philosophical character, on special education theses theoretical-philosophical trends developed in doctorate programs in Education and Physical Education at the São Paulo State from 1985 until 2009. Uppermost in our objective is to analyze, through theoretical-philosophical tendencies of deficiency and/or difference, the epistemological and ontological implications of the theses that are the sole subject matter, considering their interrelations towards social, political and economic determiners. For although there are few studies that focus on their own research in Special Education, under a historical-philosophical perspective, and to be bound to the field of epistemology acquire importance in the context of scientific education, at a time when there is a significant increase this production in terms of quantity, but quality becomes questionable. Accordingly, studies on trends theoretical and philosophical about the research produced, and their epistemological and ontological implications, and its philosophical assumptions gnosiological and help you understand some important elements that determine the quality of research. This is because the researchers to get a trusted domain of techniques and methods need to understand the logical articulation of both the theoretical and epistemological as well as having clarity of philosophical implications of the various options that perform scientific. Thus, we believe that ensuring research with better knowledge may be that the researcher has the epistemological and ontological that guide the development of their scientific research. Given this, the logical-gnosiological structure of this study has perceived in the texts analysis readings, reflections and critique regarding the elements that make up the scientific production, scoping not only logical and historical aspects, as considered in the Epistemological Mode, but also the understanding of, among other things, how knowledge in the area of Special Education has been brought about. In order to do so, we have consubstantiated in categories of the materialistic dialectics, especially, the logical, the historical, the abstract, the concrete and the contradictory totality. So, the reached results from this study and the systematized data along the way demonstrated, if it is necessary to look at the theses with worry and caution, that it is possible to foresee them with optimism. The worry and caution are related to the predominance of studies edified on the empirical realism, which focuses on empirical fitness and theory instrumental utility. On the other hand, the optimism can came forth from analysis, which is emergent, since the mid 1980's, studies based on critical and scientific realism, focused on their analyses development as well as in the apprehension of education as a social organization part (Education as Mediation), contributing for the educational issue comprehension of those who own special needs, especially by providing the objective and critical analyses of political of social equity. Given that, the Special Education theses production has already been set and is gaining territory in education and Physical education post-graduation programs, respectively. The technical- methodological and theoretical aspects identification indicates that research on Special Education endeavors to come closer to the Brazilian education trouble and its social organized movements for the sake of the public school. / Doutorado / Filosofia e História da Educação / Doutor em Educação

This information studies dissertation deals with the problem that results from research outside academia risk to receive little or no attention if communicated through reports, instead of in mainstream academic genres like research journal articles. The case in focus is Swedish development-led (DL) archaeology, i.e. state regulated archaeology preceding land development. Swedish DL archaeology is organized as a semi-regulated market. The organizations competing on the market are professional service organizations selling research services to land developers. Regional government departments, county administrative boards, function as intermediaries setting up procurement-like processes. In previous research on archaeological documentation, the problem with non-use of reports has been described as depending on cultural issues of access, possible to solve if individuals make efforts to communicate and use extra-academic results. This dissertation offers an alternative definition of the problem, highlighting a different set of solutions. The aim is to further the understanding of how the distribution of research duties to professional service organizations affects the scholarly documentation in Swedish archaeology. The aim is met through identification, operationalization and analysis of resources available to report writing DL archaeology practitioners, and an analysis of how practitioners draw on these resources. The results further the understanding of how reports are shaped within the DL archaeology institution. In view of these results, efforts to solve issues of access should target the organization of research in the archaeology discipline, and specifically how scholarly documentation is governed on the archaeology market. The dissertation draws on science and technology studies, practice theory, and document theory for the design of the study of documentation resources and contexts in extra-academic research. A mixed methods approach is applied to capture regulative, institutional, and infrastructural resources, and practitioners’ use thereof. Dissertation papers I-III contain analyses of concrete instantiations of the resources: information policy, documentation ideals, and information source use. The fourth paper presents an analysis of how practitioners draw on these resources in their everyday report writing. The dissertation concerns archaeology specifically, but serves as grounds to inquire into the premises for scholarly documentation in other areas of extra-academic research and knowledge-making as well. / Archaeological Information in the Digital Society (ARKDIS)

This study sets out from an artistic workshop designed to investigate light, colour and spatiality. During the original event, a number of participants joined to collaborate by means of painting, dialogue and exercises in movement. From a presentation of the workshop (as determined in time and space), the text argues that the character of an artwork is essentially unfinished; an ongoing ”truth process”. Adopting lines of reasoning from philosophers Vilém Flusser and Theodor Adorno, I gain a first understanding of how the artwork could be reconstituted within the limits of a scientific essay. Once more turning to the workshop's course of events, I find experiences within the actual situation relating to abstract concepts such as ”spirit”, ”quality” and ”freedom”. Next, the text pays heed to Ludwig Wittgenstein's observation that human knowledge is gained and mediated by language-games of various kinds. The selected concepts are consequently tried out in expanded ”studio talks”, involving artists from different fields such as painter Matts Leiderstam, writer Robert Pirsig and sculptor Joseph Beuys. The operation allows me to single out some specific conditions pertaining to artistic dialogue, from which I seek transitions to philosophical discourse. The text briefly reviews three contemporary, art-based projects offering such discursive exchange: "haptiska blickar", "Thinking Through Painting" and "Freikörperkultur". Against this backdrop, I seek to articulate an understanding of knowledge-making which embraces artistically as well as philosophically grounded practises. I find support from philosophers John Dewey and Hans Larsson – Dewey characterizing the esthetic and intellectual faculties as complementary movements within the human mind, and Larsson propounding intuition as the unifying and superior form of thinking. Assenting to their views, I concludingly suggest methodical introspection as another field for discursive interchange between art and science. / Undersökningen tar sin början i en konstnärlig rumsgestaltning, vilken genomfördes i form av en workshop med flera deltagare. Workshopen innehöll flera olikartade metodiska element: måleri, rörelseövningar och samtal. Textens presentation av workshopen som en händelse, begränsad i tid och rum, följs av ett ställningstagande för det konstnärliga verkets karaktär av oavslutat ”sanningsskeende”. Med hjälp av filosoferna Vilém Flusser och Theodor Adorno inventeras förutsättningarna för ett återskapande av konstverket med den vetenskapliga essäns medel. Därefter återvänder jag till workshopen för att följa dess händelseförlopp, och finner då att erfarenheterna i situationen förbinder sig med abstrakta begrepp som ”ande”, ”kvalitet” och ”frihet”. I nästa övergång tar texten fasta på Ludwig Wittgensteins iakttagelse, att mänskligt kunskapande försiggår och förmedlas genom olika slags språkspel. De tre begreppen prövas därför först i ett utvidgat ”ateljésamtal”, vilket också inbegriper andra konstnärliga utövare – bland dem målaren Matts Leiderstam, författaren Robert Pirsig och skulptören Joseph Beuys. Texten belyser det konstnärliga samtalets särskilda förutsättningar, och söker härifrån öppningar mot filosofins samtal. I de samtida konstbaserade projekten "haptiska blickar", "Thinking Through Painting" och "Freikörperkultur" finner jag sådana dialoger mellan konstnärligt och filosofiskt grundade kunskapsformer. Mot bakgrund av dessa prövar jag – med stöd hos filosoferna John Dewey och Hans Larsson – att formulera en förståelse som omfattar helheten. Hos Dewey finner jag bilden av tänkandets skilda praktiker som komplementära riktningar i medvetandet. Därefter ansluter texten till Larssons syn på intuition som tänkandets fullbordan, och föreslår avslutningsvis metodisk introspektion som ännu ett möjligt fält för diskursiva utbyten mellan konst och vetenskap.

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This research aims to shed insights and produce supportive tools to help stimulate the design of education programs. First a characterization of opportunities and challenges for education programs is given from a global sustainability standpoint. Second a characterization of what education programs may contain and take into account from a full sustainability standpoint, as an outline of education programs in a desired future at a principle level, is provided to help inspire purpose-led education services organizations. Third an outline of possible tools and strategies to help strategically close the gap between the current unsustainable state and the desired sustainable future is provided. A special focus is put on the Template for Sustainable Product Development (TSPD) process tool, originally used to help industries in their production chain, but here adapted as the “Sustainability Potential” Express Strategic Assessment for Education Programs to benefit education programs stakeholders. The authors also propose a set of three abilities acting in synergy: Creativity, “Knowledge Making” &amp; “Open Values” (CKMOV) that are at the heart of Strategic Sustainable Development and thus may help form three equally vital pillars, which education programs may strategically take support from while helping society transition to a sustainable equilibrium. / <p>+86 13637758331</p>