Knowledge is developed as communities of scholars, researchers, and professionals share insights, discoveries, theories, and questions from different perspectives and interpretations.
What this can mean to Hostos students:
- Understanding scholarship as conversation, and the process of knowledge-building as both collective and embedded in time, can help students question a more rigid idea of truth as something that exists outside of human beings and that never changes. We can help students develop a more complicated understanding of the unending human quest for truth and the evolution of our shared knowledge.
- Understanding that discourse is part of knowledge production also gives students insight into why scholars cite one another and, by extension, why they are being asked to cite their own sources.
