Subject: Re: [IFETS-DISCUSS] Knowledge Defined
From: Ania Lian (ania@COMEDU.CANBERRA.EDU.AU)
Date: Wed 28 May 2003 - 03:06:36 MEST
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 11:06:36 +1000 From: Ania Lian <ania@COMEDU.CANBERRA.EDU.AU> Subject: Re: [IFETS-DISCUSS] Knowledge Defined
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Kaylyn Anderson wrote:
> simply know. Knowledge without use or skill is rote memory. Knowledge
> is being able to put into practice what you have learned.
YOu may be right in your definition. But teh point is not to say what you
believe but to argue it in ways that create methodological openings to the
understanding how to proceed critically.
> hope that my pictures turn out the way I intend. I know that when I
> take a course in lighting and practice its concepts, I will become
> knowledgeable. It won't make me an expert, but I will be abe to
> produce good product. I might say I have a "working knowledge of
> something" to explain that I am not completely skillful.
In my view, the issue is not whether you will create pictures
approximately as required by the course leader. The issue is how you work
or, as I would put it, how will you be able to link whatever you know. I
tend to call this process of connecting "consideration" but we can argue
about it. Consideration is nice because the concept does not separate
skill from what you "know". It makes "knowledge" reveal itself in the act
of creating. It also makes knowledge pragmatic i.e. embedded in practice
and serving practice. Which practice it is depends on us: supporting teh
existence of empty institutions is one, another one is to enable a more
considered way of proceeding. :-)
Ania Lian
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