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Cultivating collective expertise within innovative knowledge-practice networks
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Hakkarainen, Kai Lallimo, Jiri Toikka, Seppo White, Hal D. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | The purpose of present paper is to examine the collective nature of human expertise from the perspective of three metaphors of learning, i.e., knowledgeacquisition, participation, and knowledge-creation metaphor. From the traditional cognitive perspective, expertise is an exceptional competence relying on mentally processing acquired knowledge structures. This knowledge acquisition (monological) perspective is challenged by sociocultural approaches, i.e., the participation (dialogical) perspective, examining expertise as a process of participating and growing up to a social community in which appropriation of cultural-historically evolved social practices and mediating material and epistemic artifacts play a central role. Rather than assimilation of already existing knowledge or growing up to a stable community, constant pursuit of novelty and innovation is a central characteristic of our time. The knowledge-creation perspective examines expertise in terms of sustained collective efforts of advancing shared objects of activity whether those are ideas, designs, plans, concrete products, or practices being reflected on. Such knowledge-creating practices involving interaction between individuals, communities, and objects appear to be irreducibly triadic relations ("trialogical") in nature, as will be explained. Two case studies of cultivating collective expertise of professional communities are provided which intermix dialogical and trialogical characteristics of expertise where individual, social, and material elements are intertwined in objectoriented and long-term activity. These investigations revealed that real-world expertise is usually defined relationally rather that individually and, frequently, involved hybridization or brokering across knowledge domains. The studies revealed various ways in which expertise is shared between the participants and cultivated by workplace communities' shared practices. |
| Starting Page | 69 |
| Ending Page | 86 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
