How do governments use knowledge to inform
policy-making and policy-implementation? What are
the epistemological aspects and assumptions made
within the parameters of the classical scientific
paradigm that filter the use of knowledge? This
study argues that knowledge formed within this
paradigm, usually generated at a distance, has been
individuated, detached, segmented and abstracted.
When used to inform policy, such knowledge creates a
narrow ?standardising gaze? that ?disciplines?
communities to conform to dominant social behaviour
and beliefs. Case studies are used to...