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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fletcher, Gillian

Titel

Transforming knowledge

Ist Teil von

• Engendering Transformative Change in International Development, 2019, Vol.1, p.28-45

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The MDGs failed to lift up those most in need. At the time of writing, there is little to suggest that the SDGs will not go the same way unless something changes drastically in terms of our understanding of, and responses to, inequity, inequality, and the social hierarchies that create and sustain them. In this chapter, evidence of what actually helps to generate transformative change – and gender transformative change in particular – is reviewed, revealing the importance and practical effectiveness of using participatory, generative processes that are context specific and that engage with practical wisdom; not just ‘fixed facts’. Readers are asked to consider why, despite the proven effectiveness of such approaches in generating transformative change, international development remains deeply wedded to known, ordered, technical solutions to the problems of the world. This chapter reviews evidence of what actually helps to generate transformative change – and gender transformative change in particular. It reveals the importance and practical effectiveness of using participatory, generative processes that are context specific and that engage with practical wisdom; not just 'fixed facts'. In the fourth century b.c.e, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all pondered the concept of knowledge. There is no universal agreement on the number and meaning of terms for forms of knowledge, but there is broad agreement that a delineation can be drawn between forms of knowledge. Fixed knowledge is, of course, a necessary and highly valuable form of knowledge in many fields: engineering projects undertaken without it do not bear thinking about. 'Practical wisdom', is emergent knowledge; it continually shifts and reforms as situations, contexts, power dynamics change. This is the type of knowledge that 'one knows with and through one's hands and eyes and heart as well as with one's head'.