Hi all,
I'm trying to remember a term that I heard Oyvind use recently to describe the situation when "experts from rich countries teach people in poor countries how to do things" (i.e. the "experts" set the agenda based on their own experience and assume that the knowledge direction is from rich to poor). This is a bad practice, even if it is done with good will.
The term he used was something like knowledge transfer or translation (though neither of those are right). I'd never heard it before but it is apparently as well-known term in international work as something that people in the area need to be aware of and attempt to avoid.
Does anybody know the term for this?
-dan
Dear Dan,
If I do not misremember completely is was indeed "knowledge transfer". However, often I do not know what I say, not to speak of remembering it afterwards.
Best,
Øyvind
On 4. mai 2014, at 02:12, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to remember a term that I heard Oyvind use recently to describe the situation when "experts from rich countries teach people in poor countries how to do things" (i.e. the "experts" set the agenda based on their own experience and assume that the knowledge direction is from rich to poor). This is a bad practice, even if it is done with good will.
The term he used was something like knowledge transfer or translation (though neither of those are right). I'd never heard it before but it is apparently as well-known term in international work as something that people in the area need to be aware of and attempt to avoid.
Does anybody know the term for this?
-dan
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Hmm. I hadn't thought that's it, since that's a term I know from scholarly communication research. But you'd said it was a recognised issue in development work so maybe it is. I can't find references to it except in the scholarly communication sense.
Oh well.
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Dear Dan,
If I do not misremember completely is was indeed "knowledge transfer". However, often I do not know what I say, not to speak of remembering it afterwards.
Best,
Øyvind
On 4. mai 2014, at 02:12, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to remember a term that I heard Oyvind use recently to describe the situation when "experts from rich countries teach people in poor countries how to do things" (i.e. the "experts" set the agenda based on their own experience and assume that the knowledge direction is from rich to poor). This is a bad practice, even if it is done with good will.
The term he used was something like knowledge transfer or translation (though neither of those are right). I'd never heard it before but it is apparently as well-known term in international work as something that people in the area need to be aware of and attempt to avoid.
Does anybody know the term for this?
-dan
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Problem is, of course, that what I am really talking about is "kunnskapsoverføring," a Norwegian term which translates quite well to "knowledge transfer" in some domains -- but maybe not in all.
This is not anything I have studies scholarly, though; it is based on experiences from my own work and what I have learned from colleagues.
Best,
Øyvind
On 4. mai 2014, at 18:30, O'Donnell, Dan wrote:
Hmm. I hadn't thought that's it, since that's a term I know from scholarly communication research. But you'd said it was a recognised issue in development work so maybe it is. I can't find references to it except in the scholarly communication sense.
Oh well.
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-------- Original message -------- From: Øyvind Eide oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no Date: 2014-05-04 07:25 (GMT-07:00) To: "O'Donnell, Dan" daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca Cc: "globaloutlookdh-l, MailList" globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca Subject: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Looking for a term
Dear Dan,
If I do not misremember completely is was indeed "knowledge transfer". However, often I do not know what I say, not to speak of remembering it afterwards.
Best,
Øyvind
On 4. mai 2014, at 02:12, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to remember a term that I heard Oyvind use recently to describe the situation when "experts from rich countries teach people in poor countries how to do things" (i.e. the "experts" set the agenda based on their own experience and assume that the knowledge direction is from rich to poor). This is a bad practice, even if it is done with good will.
The term he used was something like knowledge transfer or translation (though neither of those are right). I'd never heard it before but it is apparently as well-known term in international work as something that people in the area need to be aware of and attempt to avoid.
Does anybody know the term for this?
-dan
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Dan, Øyvind,
thanks for the interesting discussion! "Knowledge transmission" seems also to be used, and to be recognized as somewhat problematic:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=16882255351983696833&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&sciodt=0,5
8. From knowledge transfer to knowledge sharing? Towards better links between research, policy and practice B Head - Bridging the 'Know–Do'Gap
One common approach is to promote the ‘transfer’ or ‘transmission’ of knowledge from one group or sector to others. This is what I call a knowledge- transmission approach. The language of ‘knowledge transmission’ can, however, sometimes imply that some people (experts) have access to important truths that need to be learned, accepted, adopted and implemented by others.
Best,
Neven
Neven Jovanovic, Zagreb
On 4 May 2014 18:58, Øyvind Eide oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no wrote:
Problem is, of course, that what I am really talking about is "kunnskapsoverføring," a Norwegian term which translates quite well to "knowledge transfer" in some domains -- but maybe not in all.
This is not anything I have studies scholarly, though; it is based on experiences from my own work and what I have learned from colleagues.
Best,
Øyvind
On 4. mai 2014, at 18:30, O'Donnell, Dan wrote:
Hmm. I hadn't thought that's it, since that's a term I know from scholarly communication research. But you'd said it was a recognised issue in development work so maybe it is. I can't find references to it except in the scholarly communication sense.
Oh well.
-- Sent from my phone using swipe typographical error production technology.
Daniel Paul O'Donnell Department of English University of Lethbridge
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Dear Dan,
If I do not misremember completely is was indeed "knowledge transfer". However, often I do not know what I say, not to speak of remembering it afterwards.
Best,
Øyvind
On 4. mai 2014, at 02:12, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to remember a term that I heard Oyvind use recently to describe the situation when "experts from rich countries teach people in poor countries how to do things" (i.e. the "experts" set the agenda based on their own experience and assume that the knowledge direction is from rich to poor). This is a bad practice, even if it is done with good will.
The term he used was something like knowledge transfer or translation (though neither of those are right). I'd never heard it before but it is apparently as well-known term in international work as something that people in the area need to be aware of and attempt to avoid.
Does anybody know the term for this?
-dan
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Transmission might be it. I know knowledge translation and knowledge transfer from different, positive, contexts (i.e. in the funding world, where it is seen as being part of the public interaction of science).
Knowledge transmission is close enough to those that I'm getting the same feeling of deja vu all over again.
Thanks a lot!
On 14-05-04 01:32 PM, Neven Jovanović wrote:
Dan, Øyvind,
thanks for the interesting discussion! "Knowledge transmission" seems also to be used, and to be recognized as somewhat problematic:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=16882255351983696833&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&sciodt=0,5
- From knowledge transfer to knowledge sharing? Towards better links
between research, policy and practice B Head - Bridging the 'Know–Do'Gap
One common approach is to promote the ‘transfer’ or ‘transmission’ of knowledge from one group or sector to others. This is what I call a knowledge- transmission approach. The language of ‘knowledge transmission’ can, however, sometimes imply that some people (experts) have access to important truths that need to be learned, accepted, adopted and implemented by others.
Best,
Neven
Neven Jovanovic, Zagreb
On 4 May 2014 18:58, Øyvind Eide oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no wrote:
Problem is, of course, that what I am really talking about is "kunnskapsoverføring," a Norwegian term which translates quite well to "knowledge transfer" in some domains -- but maybe not in all.
This is not anything I have studies scholarly, though; it is based on experiences from my own work and what I have learned from colleagues.
Best,
Øyvind
On 4. mai 2014, at 18:30, O'Donnell, Dan wrote:
Hmm. I hadn't thought that's it, since that's a term I know from scholarly communication research. But you'd said it was a recognised issue in development work so maybe it is. I can't find references to it except in the scholarly communication sense.
Oh well.
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell Department of English University of Lethbridge
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Dear Dan,
If I do not misremember completely is was indeed "knowledge transfer". However, often I do not know what I say, not to speak of remembering it afterwards.
Best,
Øyvind
On 4. mai 2014, at 02:12, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to remember a term that I heard Oyvind use recently to describe the situation when "experts from rich countries teach people in poor countries how to do things" (i.e. the "experts" set the agenda based on their own experience and assume that the knowledge direction is from rich to poor). This is a bad practice, even if it is done with good will.
The term he used was something like knowledge transfer or translation (though neither of those are right). I'd never heard it before but it is apparently as well-known term in international work as something that people in the area need to be aware of and attempt to avoid.
Does anybody know the term for this?
-dan
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Hi,
A bit belated here. I would have thought you were looking for a term that suggested a negative critique of such approach. "Knowledge transmission" seems to me like a positive thing.
I have heard of "top-down" approaches, but these are not specific of 'Developed'-'Developing' relationships. "White saviour complex" is a popular term amongst people in development/humanitarian work.
There's of course also the "capacity building" approach, which is about empowering communities rather than telling them how to do things.
Just my two cents.
All the best,
*Dr Ernesto Priego*Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/ http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriegohttps://twitter.com/ernestopriego
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On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Daniel O'Donnell daniel.odonnell@uleth.cawrote:
Transmission might be it. I know knowledge translation and knowledge transfer from different, positive, contexts (i.e. in the funding world, where it is seen as being part of the public interaction of science).
Knowledge transmission is close enough to those that I'm getting the same feeling of deja vu all over again.
Thanks a lot!
On 14-05-04 01:32 PM, Neven Jovanović wrote:
Dan, Øyvind,
thanks for the interesting discussion! "Knowledge transmission" seems also to be used, and to be recognized as somewhat problematic:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=16882255351983696833&hl=en&as_ sdt=0,5&sciodt=0,5
- From knowledge transfer to knowledge sharing? Towards better links
between research, policy and practice B Head - Bridging the 'Know–Do'Gap
One common approach is to promote the ‘transfer’ or ‘transmission’ of knowledge from one group or sector to others. This is what I call a knowledge- transmission approach. The language of ‘knowledge transmission’ can, however, sometimes imply that some people (experts) have access to important truths that need to be learned, accepted, adopted and implemented by others.
Best,
Neven
Neven Jovanovic, Zagreb
On 4 May 2014 18:58, Øyvind Eide oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no wrote:
Problem is, of course, that what I am really talking about is "kunnskapsoverføring," a Norwegian term which translates quite well to "knowledge transfer" in some domains -- but maybe not in all.
This is not anything I have studies scholarly, though; it is based on experiences from my own work and what I have learned from colleagues.
Best,
Øyvind
On 4. mai 2014, at 18:30, O'Donnell, Dan wrote:
Hmm. I hadn't thought that's it, since that's a term I know from
scholarly communication research. But you'd said it was a recognised issue in development work so maybe it is. I can't find references to it except in the scholarly communication sense.
Oh well.
-- Sent from my phone using swipe typographical error production technology.
Daniel Paul O'Donnell Department of English University of Lethbridge
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Dear Dan,
If I do not misremember completely is was indeed "knowledge transfer". However, often I do not know what I say, not to speak of remembering it afterwards.
Best,
Øyvind
On 4. mai 2014, at 02:12, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to remember a term that I heard Oyvind use recently to describe the situation when "experts from rich countries teach people in poor countries how to do things" (i.e. the "experts" set the agenda based on their own experience and assume that the knowledge direction is from rich to poor). This is a bad practice, even if it is done with good will.
The term he used was something like knowledge transfer or translation (though neither of those are right). I'd never heard it before but it is apparently as well-known term in international work as something that people in the area need to be aware of and attempt to avoid.
Does anybody know the term for this?
-dan
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I agree that it sounded particularly positive for a negative term. It's why it stuck in my head.
On 14-05-06 02:15 AM, Ernesto Priego wrote:
Hi,
A bit belated here. I would have thought you were looking for a term that suggested a negative critique of such approach. "Knowledge transmission" seems to me like a positive thing.
I have heard of "top-down" approaches, but these are not specific of 'Developed'-'Developing' relationships. "White saviour complex" is a popular term amongst people in development/humanitarian work.
There's of course also the "capacity building" approach, which is about empowering communities rather than telling them how to do things.
Just my two cents.
All the best,
Dr Ernesto Priego *Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London Editor-in-Chief, /The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship**/http://www.comicsgrid.com/ http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriego https://twitter.com/ernestopriego
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On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca mailto:daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca> wrote:
Transmission might be it. I know knowledge translation and knowledge transfer from different, positive, contexts (i.e. in the funding world, where it is seen as being part of the public interaction of science). Knowledge transmission is close enough to those that I'm getting the same feeling of deja vu all over again. Thanks a lot! On 14-05-04 01:32 PM, Neven Jovanović wrote: Dan, Øyvind, thanks for the interesting discussion! "Knowledge transmission" seems also to be used, and to be recognized as somewhat problematic: <http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=16882255351983696833&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&sciodt=0,5> 8. From knowledge transfer to knowledge sharing? Towards better links between research, policy and practice B Head - Bridging the 'Know–Do'Gap One common approach is to promote the ‘transfer’ or ‘transmission’ of knowledge from one group or sector to others. This is what I call a knowledge- transmission approach. The language of ‘knowledge transmission’ can, however, sometimes imply that some people (experts) have access to important truths that need to be learned, accepted, adopted and implemented by others. Best, Neven Neven Jovanovic, Zagreb On 4 May 2014 18:58, Øyvind Eide <oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no <mailto:oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no>> wrote: Problem is, of course, that what I am really talking about is "kunnskapsoverføring," a Norwegian term which translates quite well to "knowledge transfer" in some domains -- but maybe not in all. This is not anything I have studies scholarly, though; it is based on experiences from my own work and what I have learned from colleagues. Best, Øyvind On 4. mai 2014, at 18:30, O'Donnell, Dan wrote: Hmm. I hadn't thought that's it, since that's a term I know from scholarly communication research. But you'd said it was a recognised issue in development work so maybe it is. I can't find references to it except in the scholarly communication sense. Oh well. -- Sent from my phone using swipe typographical error production technology. Daniel Paul O'Donnell Department of English University of Lethbridge -------- Original message -------- From: Øyvind Eide <oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no <mailto:oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no>> Date: 2014-05-04 07:25 (GMT-07:00) To: "O'Donnell, Dan" <daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca <mailto:daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca>> Cc: "globaloutlookdh-l, MailList" <globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca <mailto:globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca>> Subject: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Looking for a term Dear Dan, If I do not misremember completely is was indeed "knowledge transfer". However, often I do not know what I say, not to speak of remembering it afterwards. Best, Øyvind On 4. mai 2014, at 02:12, Daniel O'Donnell wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to remember a term that I heard Oyvind use recently to describe the situation when "experts from rich countries teach people in poor countries how to do things" (i.e. the "experts" set the agenda based on their own experience and assume that the knowledge direction is from rich to poor). This is a bad practice, even if it is done with good will. The term he used was something like knowledge transfer or translation (though neither of those are right). I'd never heard it before but it is apparently as well-known term in international work as something that people in the area need to be aware of and attempt to avoid. 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Some of the problem may be that such terms are not good or bad in general -- it depends on context. My German teacher has knowledge about a certain language I do not have so I am happy that he is willing to transfer or transmit some of that knowledge to me. When I came to Harare with knowledge about how a specific tool worked I was happy to transfer or transmit that knowledge to colleagues. But I find it wrong to describe the full relationship between me and colleagues in Harare as a situation of knowledge transfer from me to them.
This is an interesting discussion because it is easy to make dogmatic statements about what we want and what we do not want. The world, however, tends to be more complex.
Regards,
Øyvind
On 6. mai 2014, at 16:56, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
I agree that it sounded particularly positive for a negative term. It's why it stuck in my head.
On 14-05-06 02:15 AM, Ernesto Priego wrote:
Hi,
A bit belated here. I would have thought you were looking for a term that suggested a negative critique of such approach. "Knowledge transmission" seems to me like a positive thing.
I have heard of "top-down" approaches, but these are not specific of 'Developed'-'Developing' relationships. "White saviour complex" is a popular term amongst people in development/humanitarian work.
There's of course also the "capacity building" approach, which is about empowering communities rather than telling them how to do things.
Just my two cents.
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On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Daniel O'Donnell daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca wrote: Transmission might be it. I know knowledge translation and knowledge transfer from different, positive, contexts (i.e. in the funding world, where it is seen as being part of the public interaction of science).
Knowledge transmission is close enough to those that I'm getting the same feeling of deja vu all over again.
Thanks a lot!
On 14-05-04 01:32 PM, Neven Jovanović wrote: Dan, Øyvind,
thanks for the interesting discussion! "Knowledge transmission" seems also to be used, and to be recognized as somewhat problematic:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=16882255351983696833&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&sciodt=0,5
- From knowledge transfer to knowledge sharing? Towards better links
between research, policy and practice B Head - Bridging the 'Know–Do'Gap
One common approach is to promote the ‘transfer’ or ‘transmission’ of knowledge from one group or sector to others. This is what I call a knowledge- transmission approach. The language of ‘knowledge transmission’ can, however, sometimes imply that some people (experts) have access to important truths that need to be learned, accepted, adopted and implemented by others.
Best,
Neven
Neven Jovanovic, Zagreb
On 4 May 2014 18:58, Øyvind Eide oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no wrote: Problem is, of course, that what I am really talking about is "kunnskapsoverføring," a Norwegian term which translates quite well to "knowledge transfer" in some domains -- but maybe not in all.
This is not anything I have studies scholarly, though; it is based on experiences from my own work and what I have learned from colleagues.
Best,
Øyvind
On 4. mai 2014, at 18:30, O'Donnell, Dan wrote:
Hmm. I hadn't thought that's it, since that's a term I know from scholarly communication research. But you'd said it was a recognised issue in development work so maybe it is. I can't find references to it except in the scholarly communication sense.
Oh well.
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-------- Original message -------- From: Øyvind Eide oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no Date: 2014-05-04 07:25 (GMT-07:00) To: "O'Donnell, Dan" daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca Cc: "globaloutlookdh-l, MailList" globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca Subject: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Looking for a term
Dear Dan,
If I do not misremember completely is was indeed "knowledge transfer". However, often I do not know what I say, not to speak of remembering it afterwards.
Best,
Øyvind
On 4. mai 2014, at 02:12, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to remember a term that I heard Oyvind use recently to describe the situation when "experts from rich countries teach people in poor countries how to do things" (i.e. the "experts" set the agenda based on their own experience and assume that the knowledge direction is from rich to poor). This is a bad practice, even if it is done with good will.
The term he used was something like knowledge transfer or translation (though neither of those are right). I'd never heard it before but it is apparently as well-known term in international work as something that people in the area need to be aware of and attempt to avoid.
Does anybody know the term for this?
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