Teaching students to respect the process of research prepares them not only for the global experience, but the individual one. It defies ignorance; it breaks through preconceived notions and moves them toward enlightened understandings. We must teach them to value the process as much as we have encouraged them to value its product--knowledge. Research can engender dialogue across centuries, across oceans, through infinite cyberspace. It represents a human desire to move forward, to discover new places and fathom the nature of the self in the process. It breaks through isolation to dispel ignorance, prejudice, fear of the unknown; to challenge the untestable and blindly believed, corruption, and manipulation. In its expansive nature (because it is an endless journal and simultaneous journeys at once through time, space and self), it protects against threats to human liberty. Research is at once accepting of the individual voice and tolerant of mutitudinous voices. It imposes further questioning, generating hyperlinks that descend through layers of space. Laura Hennessey DeSena
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 18:44:30 +0000
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