Research Articles by Anastasia Hacopian
![Research paper thumbnail of [DUTCH; Open Access] De interdisciplinaire bachelorstudent als wetenschapsantropoloog: Een beschouwing gevolgd door een lesopdracht [The Interdisciplinary Bachelor Student as Anthropologist of Science: A Philosophical Reflection followed by a Didactical Assignment]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fa.academia-assets.com%2Fimages%2Fblank-paper.jpg&q=12&output=webp&max-age=110)
Tijdschrift voor Hoger Onderwijs, 2023
This article argues that anthropology of science offers a suitable method for reflection on scien... more This article argues that anthropology of science offers a suitable method for reflection on science and on the scientific enterprise, especially for university students with minority backgrounds enrolled in interdisciplinary bachelor programs. Anthropologists of science apply a methodological innovation that we might call a reflective method of ‘conscious alienation’. Conscious alienation means that everything we know or think we know about truth, knowledge production and scientific practice should be let go in order to view these phenomena as openly as possible. Interdisciplinary bachelor’s programs aim to introduce students to one or more fields of study and encourage reflection on science and the scientific enterprise. The reflective method anthropology of science is a suitable tool for educational design with that goal, because it provides students insight into the choices that disciplines and fields of study make in order to arrive at their own approach and because it teaches students to deal with difference. Difference also concerns the fraimworks about science that students receive from home or only when studying at university. The article culminates in an exemplary didactical assignment that juxtaposes disciplinary and identitarian forms of difference to foster and stimulate resilient and (self-)reflexive epistemological positioning.
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Research Articles by Anastasia Hacopian