Critical literature review and complex way of thinking
Speaker: Dr Michel Alhadeff-Jones
Discussant: Sadegh Nashat
Editor-in-Chief, Rorschachiana: International Journal of the
Rorschach and Projective Methods
A Rorschachiana event, organised by Hogrefe Publishing in
association with Connecting Minds Network
Monday 13 May 2013
Europe, 5.30pm
Istanbul, 6.30pm
New York, 11.30am
Sao Paulo, 12.30pm
This event is sponsored by Hogrefe Publishing and is free of charge
The contemporary cultural context raises several challenges considering the
way scientific knowledge is produced and the way it influences one’s own
understanding of professional and personal issues. Today, it is crucial for
everyone to learn how to cope with the information overload that characterises
the exponential increase and spreading of heterogeneous forms of knowledge
(based on experience, science, etc.) we are facing.
From a scientific perspective, learning to critically take position requires one
to learn how to filter information and identify the relevant data. It also requires
one to learn how to negotiate the tensions inherent to the multiplication, the
fragmentation and the diversification of knowledge. Doing so involves the
development of a capacity to recognise and negotiate explicitly the complexity
inherent to the understanding of lived or observed realities.
Aim and objectives:
The aim of this workshop is to bring participants to critically reflect on the way
they conceive scientific research, both as “consumers” and “producers” of such
specific knowledge. On one hand, this workshop provides participants with a
methodology to locate one’s own specific research agenda in regard of the
scientific field as a whole. On the other hand, it provides them with the
opportunity to question how does one learn to position “expert” knowledge
produced by other researchers and how it can be critically articulated with
one’s own research interests. This workshop focuses therefore on the
framework required in order to conceive a critical literature review that
acknowledges the complexity attributed to a topic of research.
This session will be organised around three main areas:
• Some fundamental assumptions framing a complex and transdisciplinary
conception of scientific research will be introduced.
• The distinction between practical problem, research question, and research
problem will be discussed.
• Models of literature review will be discussed: Literature review as creative
inquiry, integrative literature review and critical literature review.
About the speaker:
Dr Michel Alhadeff-Jones is a psychosociologist and a philosopher of
education. His practice privileges the use of life history as an opportunity to
develop critical reflection located at the crossroads between human sciences,
philosophy and everyday life experience. Lecturer at the University of
Fribourg (Switzerland) and Adjunct Professor at Teachers College, Columbia
University, he is also the editor-in-chief of “Complicity: An International
Journal of Complexity and Education”.
To register, visit:
www.connectingmindsnetwork.com/cmnregistration/
Further information:
Connecting Minds Network
cmn@connectingmindsnetwork.com
+44 (0)20 3239 0086
www.connectingmindsnetwork.com

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