It’s time to take stock of what we know, how we know it, and what we need to find out. During class on Wednesday, please work in your groups to do the following:
- Translate your Topic into a Research Problem (Follow these Guidelines for focusing your group projects). Cite your sources!
- Summarize your research problem and how it has developed (historical background)- in terms of key concepts from class readings. Cite your sources!
- Summarize the power relations/politics surrounding your research problem and making it difficult to address (political context)- in terms of key concepts from class readings. Cite your sources!
- Explain how you know what you know. What kind of knowledge are you working with?
- Community Knowledge—cultural practices and wisdom passed down for generations.
- Knowledge from Experience—what we learn and know from living and doing it.
- Academic Knowledge—published facts and data produced by research “professionals” usually from outside the community.
- Indicate the knowledge and kind of knowledge your group needs to move forward. What are your next steps?
Someone from each group should your group’s response on your project page. Others in the group can add and edit at any point, and anyone in the class can comment. As you learn more, I encourage to you continue developing and refining your descriptions of the problem (in the same post!).
