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Performing Knowledge Art: Understanding Collaborative Cartography

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This chapter focuses on the special skills and considerations involved in constructing knowledge maps for, and with, groups. Using knowledge cartography in a facilitative manner in such efforts as collaborative analysis, or simply trying to map discussions on the fly using knowledge mapping software, poses challenges and requires expertise beyond that which characterize individual practice. The chapter provides concepts and frameworks useful in analyzing such collaborative practice and illustrates them with a case study.

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    This is also true for other disciplines looking at professional practice. For example, Cross (2003) observed this for studies of professional designers: “Most studies of designer behaviour have been based on novices (e.g., students) or, at best, designers of relatively modest talents… if studies of designer behaviour are limited to studies of rather inexpert designers, then … our understanding of expert designers will also be limited. In order to understand expertise in design, we must study expert designers.”

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    Simon J. Buckingham Shum

  3. Sheffield Hallam University Centre for Science Education, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Tony Sherborne

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Selvin, A.M. (2014). Performing Knowledge Art: Understanding Collaborative Cartography. In: Okada, A., Buckingham Shum, S., Sherborne, T. (eds) Knowledge Cartography. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6470-8_11

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