LESSON 1.3 - Ways of Knowing and Motor Developement

Question 1

What is knowledge and how an individual gains knowledge

Answer 1

Knowledge: to have information or skill set within one’s repertoire
- To gain knowledge, you acquire it through education or experience that allows one to engage in such processes as recognition, perception, discovery, and analysis

Question 2

Scientific Knowledge

Answer 2

body of knowledge that accumulates from what we learn from engaging in the scientific process

Question 3

Scientific Method for knowledge generation

Answer 3

Allows us to have a body of knowledge accumulating from what we learn from engaging in scientific processes

Question 4

the benefits of scientific method for knowledge generation

Answer 4

Strengths:

• to prove something
• able others to replicate it
• subjective, quantifiable
• validity
• eliminate biases
• objectivity
• to enhance body of knowledge
• publish and share knowledge

Question 5

underlying assumptions of the Western Based scientific method

Answer 5

• the scientific method of generating knowledge is superior and the only valid method of generating knowledge
• The researcher knows what information needs to be generated

Question 6

issues and limitations of the scientific method for knowledge generation

Answer 6

• Significant time lag between basic science and practice

- e.g., bench to bedside: basic research -> clinical research -> guidelines -> practice (can take 17 years)

Question 7

knowledge translation and its role in dissemination of motor development knowledge

Answer 7

knowledge translation - important emphasis in research today, focusing on moving research from laboratory to practical use - health professionals, physicians, policy makers, the public

Question 8

two-eyed seeing - importance to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work

Answer 8

refers to learning to see from one eye with the strengths of indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing, and other eye with the strengths of western knowledges and ways of knowing
- critical for enabling integrative and transdisciplinary work
Critical in the process of Truth and Reconciliation

Question 9

two-eyed seeing - importance to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work

Answer 9

refers to learning to see from one eye with the strengths of indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing, and other eye with the strengths of western knowledges and ways of knowing
- critical for enabling integrative and transdisciplinary work
Critical in the process of Truth and Reconciliation

Question 10

assumption

Answer 10

something that is accepted without question; can be valid but does not mean an assumption is valid