The Epistemic Alchemy Podcast (Mohammed Raei)

In this episode, I interviewed Four Arrows, who was selected by AERO as one of 27 visionaries in education and is recipient of a Martin Springer Institute Moral Courage Award for his activism.

Topics covered include:

*Decolonizing

*Indigenous research/scholarship.

*The role of spirituality.

*Alternative/authentic dissertations.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Authentic Dissertation: Alternative Ways of Knowing, Research and Representation by Four Arrows aka Don Trent Jacobs (Author)
• Differing Worldviews in Higher Education: Two Scholars Argue Cooperatively about Justice Education First Edition by Walter Block (Author), Four Arrows (Author)
• The Indigenization Controversy For Whom and By Whom?

https://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/article/view/186438

• Worldview Chart for Rebalancing Life Systems on Planet Earth

https://kindredmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/Worldview-Chart-BW-8-5-2024.pdf

• APA article:

Four Arrows, W. T. (2024). Restoring sanity and remembering spirit in psychology: Reclaiming our pre-colonial worldview. Review of General Psychology, 28(2), 106–122. https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680231226387

• Messages from Water and the Universe by Masaru Emoto

In this episode, I interview Dr. Stacey Guenther and Dr. Lisa Berkley and we discuss our experience of editing an academic anthology together.

*The challenges of editing academic anthologies.

* What makes an anthology unique?

*The process for collaboration.

*Doing a call for chapter proposal vs invite only.

*Misconceptions about editing academic anthologies.

*Rewarding aspects of editing an academic anthology.

*Decolonizing.

*Spirituality and the shadow side and dark side.

*Cross-cultural scholarship.

Dr. Stacey Guenther’s Website

https://www.drstaceyguenther.com/

Dr. Lisa Berkly’s Website

http://innereconomy.com/

Resources mentioned in the episode

Leadership at the Spiritual Edge

https://www.routledge.com/Leadership-at-the-Spiritual-Edge-Emerging-and-Non-Western-Concepts-of-Leadership/Raei-Guenther-Berkley/p/book/9781032500591

Ken Wilber’s waking up, growing up, and cleaning up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mROP49BeJc

In this episode:

*History of intersubjectivity

*What is intersubjectivity and how does it relate to phenomenology and social construction?

*How can one use intersubjectivity in research?

*How does intersubjectivity relate to Consensus reality?

*How does intersubjectivity relate to Csikszentmihalyi's systems model of creativity?

* Challenges to Transdisciplinarity.

*Making social science matter.

*Applying Kurt Fischer's dynamic skill theory to become better researchers and scholars.

Useful links:

Mike's website:

https://michaelmascolo.com/

Intersubjectivity:

https://www.academia.edu/104362384/Intersubjectivity_Joint_Action_and_Sociality

Fischer's dynamic skill theory:

https://www.academia.edu/44981984/Dynamic_Skill_Theory_An_Integrative_Theory_of_Psychological_Development

System's model of creativity:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-017-9085-7

Making Social Science Matter:

https://www.amazon.com/Making-Social-Science-Matter-Inquiry/dp/052177568X

In this episode, I interview Dr Rob Archer and we talk about Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism and how it deals with the crisis of replication.

*What is critical realism?

*What is the role of ontology?

*What is a transcendental argument?

*How does critical realism deal with the issue of replication?

*How has Bhaskar’s critical realism evolved over time and his spiritual turn.

*Where critical realism is going?

Resource mentioned in the episode.

Retiring Popper: Critical realism, falsificationism, and the crisis of replication

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09593543241250079

Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09593543241279138

Replicating is difficult but necessary, and methodology can help

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09593543241265912

Haig, B. D. (2024). Should psychology adopt Bhaskar’s critical realist philosophy of science? Theory & Psychology, 34(5), 585-590. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241265727 (Original work published 2024)

Derksen, M., & Morawski, J. (2024). Replications are informative, particularly when they fail. Theory & Psychology, 34(5), 597-603. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241269697 

Roy Bhaskar’s works

• The Possibility of Naturalism: A philosophical critique of the contemporary human sciences
• Reflections on metaReality
• The Order of Natural Necessity: A Kind of Introduction to Critical Realism
• From East To West: Odyssey of a Soul (Classical Texts in Critical Realism (Routledge Critical Realism)
• Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom

Margaret S. Archer book

• Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach

Iceberg model

https://changemanagementinsight.com/iceberg-model-of-change-management/

Lipton’s Inference to the best explanation model

Lipton, P. (2017). Inference to the best explanation. A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, 184-193.

In this episode, I interviewed Dr. Hariett Schwartz and Dr. Elizabeth Holloway about their recently published book Essentials of Constructivist Critical Incident Technique published by APA. 

We covered a large range of topics including:

*History of CIT.

*The different uses of the methodology.

*How is the research conducted?

*How it differs from other qualitative methods.

*The epistemological orientation.

*Where first-time researchers struggle.

*The future of the methodology.  

Link to the book: https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/essentials-constructivist-critical-incident-technique

Link to Flanigan's original article:

https://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/cit-article.pdf

Dr. Hariett Schwarz's website: https://harrietschwartz.com/

Dr. Elizabeth Holloway's page: https://www.antioch.edu/faculty/elizabeth-holloway/

In this episode of the Epistemic Alchemy podcast, join Dr. Mohamed Raei as he engages in an enlightening conversation with Dr. Harriet Terber Rasmussen, a seasoned leadership coach and educator with over 30 years of experience. As a faculty member at Drexel University, Dr. Rasmussen shares her insights into guiding educational leaders through the complexities of academic writing and the doctoral dissertation process.

Explore the common challenges faced by students during the literature review stage, and gain valuable practical advice on conducting impactful research that benefits a wide range of fields, from education to financial institutions. Discover the importance of aligning purpose statements and research questions, and the transformative role of AI in supporting dissertation research.

With a focus on fostering critical thinking and navigating the evolving landscape of academic inquiry, this episode offers invaluable guidance for emerging scholars and doctoral candidates looking to excel in their academic endeavors.

Resources

• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Informal-Meditation/dp/1590308492

• Otto Scharmer’s Theory U

https://ottoscharmer.com/

• Impacting Education AI Special Edition Themed Issue

https://impactinged.pitt.edu/ojs/ImpactingEd/issue/view/32

• Bloomberg's book on qualitative dissertations

https://www.amazon.com/Completing-Your-Qualitative-Dissertation-Beginning-ebook/dp/B09XBMQ4N8?ref_=ast_author_mpb

In this episode I interviewed Dr. Jonathan Reams, PhD. We had a lively discussion about Integralism, transdisciplinary scholarship and his experience as a scholar and editor-in-chief of Integral Review: A Journal Dedicated to Transdisciplinary Research and Thought.

Topics covered:

*History of Integral Review(IR)

*The different strands of Integralism.

*The editorial process at IR.

*Jonathan's experience with publishing transdisciplinary work.

*Challenges to transdisciplinary scholarship.

*The future of transdisciplinary scholarship.

*Artificial Intelligence and how it can influence scholarship.

Jonathan's website: 

https://www.jonathanreams.com/

Integral Review Website:

https://integral-review.org/

Useful links:

Ken Wilber’s AQAL model:

http://www.redfrogcoaching.com/uploads/3/4/2/1/34211350/ken_wilber_introduction_to_integral.pdf

Nicolescu's Transdisciplinary approach:

https://www.academia.edu/download/36468289/Transdisciplinary_Theory_Practice-2013.pdf

Michael Basseches Dialectical Thinking:

https://integral-review.org/issues/issue_1_basseches_the_development_of_dialectical_thinking.pdf

Zach Stein's article on interdisciplinarity:

https://integral-review.org/modeling-the-demands-of-interdisciplinarity-toward-a-framework-for-evaluating-interdisciplinary-endeavors/

Bloom's Taxonomy:

https://bloomstaxonomy.net/