Welcome to episode twelve of the Knowledge Exchange Podcast. This podcast series is a product supported by the Canadian Council on Learning – Canada’s leading organization committed to improving learning across Canada and in all walks of life.
I want to thank the great staff at CCL for their efforts with this project to advance our understanding of effective knowledge exchange to improve the learning of Canadians.
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The transcript may be downloaded here.
My conversation with Billie Allan revealed some very important ideas about knowledge exchange that had not emerged in previous interviews. Her thoughts about bringing various forms of knowledge together and the challenges this entails, the results that can be derived by mandating the inclusion of alternative perspectives, the limits of what one individual can bring to and represent in a complex learning environment, and how the way we are with people in using evidence has as much impact if not more than the methods we use to create evidence, were all very important and powerful comments. However, I was most struck by the wonderful example of life-long learning she gives near the end of our conversation. I hope it touches you as much as it touched me.
