Developing doctoral research skills for workplace inquiry : using an integrated methodology

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dc.contributor.authorPlowright, Daviden_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-31T08:21:17Z
dc.date.available2017-05-31T08:21:17Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionCITATION: Plowright, D. 2016. Developing Doctoral Research Skills for Workplace Inquiry: Using an Intergrated Methodology, in M. Fourie-Malherbe, R. Albertyn, C. Aitchison & E. Bitzer. (eds.). Postgraduate Supervision: Future Foci for the Knowledge Society. Stellenbosch: SUN PRESS. 241-254. doi:10.18820/9781928357223/14.en_ZA
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dc.description.abstractINTRODUCTION: The role of academic and scholarly research, including that undertaken for a postgraduate research degree, has changed in its emphasis. It is no longer restricted to the production of inward-looking disciplinary scholarship but to useful, instrumental knowledge that can be put to good use to address workplace issues and real-world problems. Indeed, Weber (2011:526) points out that in the knowledge society, even “scholarship must serve the requirements of the national economy in becoming more globally competitive”. Thus, research will inevitably suffer from “[t]he dominant global narrative of neoliberalism [that] underpins what has become known as the knowledge economy, where knowledge is valued for its economic worth rather than its intrinsic good” (Le Grange 2012:1133). This, of course, raises important questions about the role played by universities in the knowledge society: should they be concerned primarily with, on the one hand, the reproduction and transmission of knowledge and culture or, on the other, the transformation of that knowledge for the benefit of society (Delanty 2001)? It is a distinction that is currently a pressing issue for universities in South Africa where “[b]oth reproductive and transformative tendencies can be identified in varying degrees” (Reddy 2004:42). Indeed, at the time of writing, the current student unrest across the country reflects the pressure on higher education to play its role in social and democratic change. At a more micro-level, there is a need for rigorous, well-managed and effectivelyexecuted research, both inside higher education and in the public, private and not-forprofit sectors.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.citationPlowright, D. 2016. Developing Doctoral Research Skills for Workplace Inquiry: Using an Intergrated Methodology, in M. Fourie-Malherbe, R. Albertyn, C. Aitchison & E. Bitzer. (eds.). Postgraduate Supervision: Future Foci for the Knowledge Society. Stellenbosch: SUN PRESS. 241-254. doi:10.18820/9781928357223/14.en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-928357-21-6en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn978-1-928357-22-3en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.18820/9781928357223/14
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101640
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherSUN MeDIAen_ZA
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dc.rights.holderSUN MeDIAen_ZA
dc.subjectUniversities and colleges -- Graduate work -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectKnowledge societyen_ZA
dc.titleDeveloping doctoral research skills for workplace inquiry : using an integrated methodologyen_ZA
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