Inexplicit Learning: Transferring Knowledge through Visual and Emulative practices

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  • Koumudi Patil Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Abstract

This study attempts to understand how expert knowledge is transmitted in the absence or lack of explicit and formal means of knowledge acquisition, with particular interest in the evolved relationship of a master-apprentice, observable in pockets of traditional communities of practice. An ethnographic study based on content analysis of the transcriptions of members of a craft community from Varanasi, India has been used to strengthen the undermined pedagogical role of observation and emulation in the transfer of inexplicit knowledge. It is argued that in-situ observation and emulation foster situations for facilitating co-production of knowledge, further implying co-authorship. Gaining community membership in craft communities is not merely a matter of gaining a professional degree; instead, it is a slow process of enculturation.
Keywords: Observation, Emulation, Inexplicit learning, Master-apprentice. Communities of Practice

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2017-12-20

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Patil, K. (2017). Inexplicit Learning: Transferring Knowledge through Visual and Emulative practices. Techne Series - Research in Sloyd Education and Craft Science A, 24(2). Retrieved from https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/techneA/article/view/1914

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2017)

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