May 02, 2024  
Academic Catalog 2022-2023 
    
Academic Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HOD-883WC Advanced Research Methodologies: World Cafe

2 or 4 semester credits


The World Café is a dialogic process that relies on creating a co-evolving network of conversations to foster collaborative learning and knowledge creation. With its focus on co- generative understanding around key questions that matter, it also has significant value as a research methodology.

Focuses on design principles of World Cafés, with research questions at the core. Explores context setting for World Cafés together with the context- bound nature of knowledge generated, featuring research design for actionable knowledge. Develops an understanding of role relationships of the researcher in a World Café setting. Featuring a learning-by-doing approach, explores interpretation and sense-making of the resultant knowledge generated, together with other epistemological issues that recognize process understanding, and context setting for collaborative inquiry.
Pre-requisites: HOD-800 , HOD-881 , and HOD-882  
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):

  • Understanding of design principles and core conceptual basis of The World Café.
  • Understand World Café process by engaging in a World Café.
  • Interpret and make sense of the knowledge generated in World Café.



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