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Contested Knowledges

Undergraduate | CDU-ABR13 | 2018

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Come to grips with how to gain and develop knowledge. Explore how those processes connect with the management of natural and cultural resources in northern Australia. Filter what you’ve learnt through competing social and historical contexts.

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
No ATAR needed,
No prior study
Duration
-

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Contested Knowledges

About this subject

  • At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

    1. understand the contingent nature of knowledge production
    2. analyse and provide some critique of the concept of contingent knowledge systems
    3. describe and analyse the history of the western scientific tradition and the events that have been quintessential in the shaping of the current, dominant knowledge system in (north) Australia
    4. analyse and discuss the relationship between an understanding of the contingent nature of knowledge production and the contemporary management of natural and cultural resources
    5. articulate the importance of the negotiation of knowledge systems in the management of natural and cultural resources
    6. identify and describe both the utility and the problems inherent in the universalising and totalising nature of the western scientific tradition
    7. contribute to the shaping of the text for Contested Knowledges subject.

Entry requirements

No entry requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
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