Today in an honours workshop we had a discussion about the nature and quality of a knotty problem. In honours the aim is to find a knotty problem and then through the course of your research see how the knotty problem leads to a change in what you know. This change is not how you now know more, but that you now know differently from before. The knot that is the problem doesn’t deflect you (you don’t detour around it to avoid it) but changes you as a result of its intransigence. This is a knowing differently, a knowing more, which is quite distinct from now knowing more facts about something.
Identifying this change and discussing it in your conclusion shows what you have learnt, and is the major learning outcome from honours.
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