Dear Jack, and list,
Thanks for the link to these articles. In your article (p. 518) you wrote,
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Artists and designers often create knowledge — but we should not confuse research with knowledge creation. They are not the same and not all knowledge creation is research… Learning how to do something creates knowledge for the learner. Research creates knowledge for the larger community of human beings beyond internal mental or physical world of the individual researcher. This is why we describe research as a contribution to the knowledge of the field.
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I think your distinction between knowledge created for an individual by learning and knowledge created for the field by research, is useful and helpful for clarifying one of the core issues in the debate on the PhD in Art and Design.
I believe your distinction also points to the need for the completion of a thesis as an essential part of a course of research training. In my view, a thesis should not just be a description of an individual's learning of a new skill but also a connected exposition of the field of knowledge into which the research project falls. Consequently, as see it, writing a thesis is not merely a record that the student has been through a course of research training, it is an actual part of the research training itself.
Best regards,
Luke
Luke Feast, Ph.D.
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