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knowledge productionThe management of knowledge: best practices learned from the people of the Great Lakes region of AfricaAuthor: Dr Andreas Gerhardus (Dries) Velthuizen Organizational Affiliation: Centre for African Renaissance Studies, University of South Africa (Academic Associate) Contact Details: dries@africanwisdom.info - Mobile: +27834736478 ABSTRACT
Submitted by DriesVelt on 20 September 2009 - 3:13pm. categories [ ]
The poverty of EmpiricismMany researchers – and their advisors on research method – adopt a doctrine called empiricism, which claims that researchers may only use empirical methods. This restrictive doctrine impoverishes any academic discipline where it is dominant. The main reason is that a discipline only qualifies for the status of a science after it has progressed beyond empirical generalisations to explanatory theories; but although empirical methods are useful for discovering the former, they are inherently useless for creating the latter. So the empiricist doctrine retards scientific progress. Researchers should be aware of this danger, and research methodologists should attempt to counter it. Introduction
Submitted by KMAadmin on 25 August 2009 - 11:47am. categories [ ]
Implementing the social vision of an egalitarian society: intellectual capital and the production of social policy analystsCorresponding author: Dr Lulama Makhubela - Intellectual Capital, Development Bank of Southern Africa, 1258 Lever Road, Headway Hill, Midrand; lulum@dbsa.org Abstract
Submitted by KMAadmin on 27 July 2009 - 11:49am. categories [ ]
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