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" Participating in the knowledge society : "
edited by Ruth Finnegan.
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BL
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721123
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b540828
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edited by Ruth Finnegan.
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Participating in the knowledge society : : researchers beyond the university walls\ edited by Ruth Finnegan.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
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(xiv, 292 pages)
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0230523048
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: 1349519960
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: 9780230523043
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: 9781349519965
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Title from e-book title screen (viewed Oct. 16, 2007).
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Note on Contributors --;Preface --;Introduction: Looking Beyond the Walls; R. Finnegan --;PART 1: LOOKING BACK --;To the Heavens from Rural Lancashire: Jeremiah Horrocks and his Circle, and the Foundation of British Astronomical Research; A. Chapman --;Collectors Harnessed: Research on the British Flora by Nineteenth-Century Amateur Botanists; D.E. Allen --;Scientific Inquiry and the Missionary Enterprise; D.N. Livingstone --;Listening and Learning: Audiences and their Roles in Nineteenth-Century Britain; S. Forganthe State, 1916-1939; K. Vernon --;PART 2: OUTSIDE AND ACROSS THE WALLS --;A Brief History of Field Archaeology in the UK: The Academy, the Profession and the Amateur; A.J. Hunt --;Inside Out or Outside In? The Case of Family and Local History; M. Drake --;Community Historians and their Work Around the Millenium; J.H. McKay --;Researching Ourselves? The Mass-Observation Project; D. Sheridan --;Science with a Team of Thousands: The British Trust for Ornithology; J.J.D. Greenwood --;Think Tanks and Intellectual Authority Outside the University: Information Technocracy or Republic of Letters?; D. Cummings --;PART 3: OPENINGS AND CHALLENGES THROUGH THE WEB? --;Everyday Domestic Research in the Knowledge Society: How Ordinary People Use Information and Communication Technologies to Participate; B. Anderson --;Building Knowledge Through Debate: Opendemocracy on the Internet; C. Melville --;Blogging: Personal Participation in Public Knowledge-Building on the Web; M. Brady --;Using the Internet as a Research Tool: Between Information and Communication; W. Davies --;PART 4: REFLECTIONS: ARE THERE LESSONS FOR THE PRESENT? --;Research, Universities and the Knowledge Society; F. Webster --;Re-Opening Research: New Amateurs or New Professionals?; R. Barnett --;Index.
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Seventeenth-century village astronomers, missionary meteorologists, Victorian amateur botanists, industrial investigators, modern-day think tankers, local archaeologists, freelance family historians, internet bloggers and debaters, and many others - through a range of fascinating cases complemented by overview analysis, this multi-author volume reveals the extent and vitality of the often invisible researchers who operate outside the university. It provides a startling rebuttal of the conventional notion that the university is the primary site for knowledge production or that 'research' can and should be delimited within academically policed boundaries. The most creative and untrammelled researching today may be outside the universities, among other things exploiting the dialogic space of the Internet to bypass traditional academic controls over the production and validation of knowledge. This interdisciplinary and transhistorical volume will interest - and challenge - all readers concerned with the theory and practice of higher education and lifelong learning; the organisation of research; the sociology and history of knowledge; and the implications and research of 'the knowledge society'.
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Amateurism -- Research.
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Interdisciplinary research -- History.
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Learning and scholarship -- History.
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Q180.55.I48E358 2005
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Ruth H Finnegan
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