Abstract
The term “situated knowledge” has two quite distinct disciplinary connections. The first is with a long twentieth-century tradition in studies of knowledge that comes from the margins of society, from black feminist thought,1 from non-mainstream science,2 and from those outside accepted forms of social communication.3 The second connection is with the study of learning that takes place in the process of engaged observation and practice, such as craftwork in silver, or children’s acquisition of language,4 or more recently, computing skills. This latter use is tied closely to studies in tacit knowledge.5
Keywords
Tacit Knowledge Situate Knowledge Computing Skill Legitimate Peripheral Participation Disciplinary Field
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Notes
- 1.Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (London: Routledge, 1990).Google Scholar
- 2.Sandra G. Harding, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women’s Lives (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991).Google Scholar
- 3.Lorraine Code, Rhetorical Spaces: Essays on Gendered Locations (London: Routledge, 1995).Google Scholar
- 4.Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation, Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive & Computational Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
- 7.Lynette Hunter, Critiques of Knowing: Situated Textualities in Science, Computing and the Arts (London: Routledge, 1999).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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