Document Type
Article
Version
Author's Final Manuscript
Publication Title
Journal of Research Practice
Volume
3
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
Using contemporary insights from feminist critical theory and the literary device of synecdoche, we argue that transdisciplinary knowledge is productive because it maximizes serendipity. We draw on student learning experiences in a course on “Gender and Science” to illustrate how the dichotomous frameworks and part-whole correspondences that are predominant in much disciplinary discourse must be dismantled for innovative intellectual work to take place. In such a process, disciplinary presumptions interrogate and unsettle one another to produce novel questions and answers.
Publisher's Statement
Dalke, A., & McCormack, E. F. (2007). "Synecdoche and surprise: Transdisciplinary knowledge production." Journal of Research Practice 3(2), Article M20. http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/106/99
Citation
Dalke, Anne, and Elizabeth McCormack. "Synecdoche and surprise: Transdisciplinary knowledge production." Journal of Research Practice 3.2 (2007): Article M20.
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