forwarded for Ranulph (who is not able to send to the list from his current location)
Gunnar
-----Original Message-----
From: Ranulph Glanville [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sun 6/29/2008 8:15 PM
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Cc: Swanson, Gunnar
Subject: Re: design journals
I think it is crucial that we recognise that the aim of the scientist
is to report on the world as is, and the aim of the designer is
somehow to change the world.
That radically changes criteria and their appropriateness.
Ranulph (trying to keep out of the current discussions because .)
On 29 Jun 2008, at 17:43, Swanson, Gunnar wrote:
> Chris (or anyone),
>
> Any comments on shifts (or lack thereof) of "scholarly worth" in
> applied fields (for want of a better term)--like law or design or
> leisure management or art--compared to fields where there is no
> "practice" that is separate from "scholarship"?
>
> Should expectations of scholarly standards be the same for
> academics in academic fields (again, for want of a better phrase)
> where the only demonstration of mastery is scholarship and for
> academics in fields where mastery and scholarship are different and
> often quite separate?
>
> Chris to Victor on June 26:
>> may be straightforward markers of professional standing
>> but you have to start again when looking at scholarly worth.
>
> Gunnar
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