Thinking Aloud on My Research Interest

Context for the Research Interest:

We live in a complex world and we are complex beings with multiple identities where each identity is tied to a particular communities of practice. As a consequence of this complexity there are numerous academic disciplines and each discipline studies particular aspect of this complex world in detail. To live meaningfully and to make meaning of this complex world in which we live; each individual should be able to harness the essence of these disciplines as and when needed to act as efficiently as possible. But How? For example: A farmer needs to have access to the essence of various disciplines under Agricultural Science or Animal Husbandry while practicing farming; same farmer needs to have access to the essence of political science while participating in a democratic process; again the same farmer needs to have access to the essence of economics in order to carefully manage his/her resources or to even decide which crop to grow or to cater to which market, same person may need the understanding of geography in order to decide where to invest or buy a property with his/her hard earned money. Similarly the purpose of many other disciplines like medicine, education, linguistics, business administration etc

Research Questions

1. How can we effectively train individuals to be able to identify problems in their everyday life and enable them to situate it within one or more relevant academic disciplines to seek scientific answers or solutions?
2. What are the affordance of different theories of ‘How people learn?’ for such a training of individuals?
3. What are the affordance of research methodology and existing information technologies for such a training of individuals?