- Title
- Diversity is an asset to science not a threat
- Creator
- Blackie, Margaret A L
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/426624
- Identifier
- vital:72373
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/48687065"
- Description
- In this paper, Critical Realism is used as a theoretical framework to show that diversity is an asset to science not a threat. Critical Realism situates the reliability and reproducibility of science in the realm of the real and thus relocates the notion of “objectivity” from the person of the scientist to the process of science. This means that it no longer necessary to attempt to minimise the person of the scientist in pursuit of rigorous knowledge. The implication is that diversity both in terms of intellectual training (within limits) and in terms of being multicultural, gender, sexuality, multilingual, is revealed to be an asset. This is because the construction of knowledge draws on personal experience and having people with divergent experience interrogating the same problem is more likely to provide a reliable, reproducible solution. In the latter parts of the paper, the implications for teaching are described. In addition, it is demonstrated that this argument can be extended into different knowledge areas.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (18 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies
- Language
- English
- Relation
- International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, Blackie, M.A., 2021. Diversity is an asset to science not a threat. International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, 4(2), pp.96-113, International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies volume 4 number 2 p. 96 2021
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies Open Access Policy Statement (https://www.plutojournals.com/open-access-2/)
- Rights
- Open Access
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Blackie, Margaret Ann Lillias (Assoc Prof)
RU Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL)
SDG 04. Quality Education
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