Just published Online:

Journal of Research Practice
Volume 4, Issue 1, 2008
http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/issue/view/7

The articles tell us a lot about how research develops--in different
contexts. The first article (Fratesi & Vacher) takes us through the
dynamics of "little science, big science," in the discipline of
geology--a dynamics experienced in other disciplines too. The second
article (Richards) reminds us of the kind of research that existed
even before the disciplines came into being, practised by the
pre-Socratics, which can still be practised today. The next two
articles (Bhattacharyya; Räsänen) focus on researchers and their
individual and collective potential in redirecting their work. I am
very pleased with this issue of JRP. Our gratitude to the authors,
reviewers, and all others who worked for this.

# Main Articles

Scientific Journals as Fossil Traces of Sweeping Change in the
Structure and Practice of Modern Geology
(Sarah E. Fratesi, H. Leonard Vacher)

The Art of Rhetoric as Self-Discipline: Interdisciplinarity, Inner
Necessity, and the Construction of a Research Agenda
(Anne R. Richards)

# Research Design

Genesis of an Academic Research Program
(Gautam Bhattacharyya)

# Provocative Idea

Meaningful academic work as praxis in emergence
(Keijo Räsänen)


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