ABSTRACT
For the authors co-writing this book about knowledge, the writing process itself has produced knowledge that is both useful and important. Clearly, all academic writing involves, or at least should involve, some kind of learning. The learning in this book process has, however, been different from what is involved in writing an article for a scientific journal, or a book chapter in an anthology. In such writing, one positions one’s “piece of knowledge” amongst the knowledge contributions of others engaging in a debate within a discipline or a research field. This means that even if there are differences between what the researchers engaging in a certain scientific debate research on, and how, and also disagreements on ontological and epistemological issues between them, these differences and disagreements will also have some limitations to their range, even if this range will vary amongst disciplines and research fields. This undoubtedly has its advantages. Gathering a diverse group of researchers and have them discuss something they all have in common, as we have done in this book, is however also productive. It simply produces another kind of knowledge; a knowledge that is both useful, and also quite urgent to bring forward at this point of time in Norwegian research history.
