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Revealing Tacit Knowledge
Embodiment and Explication
Frank Adloff, Katharina Gerund, and David Kaldewey, editors
F o r S a l e O n ly i n t h e u n i t e d s tat e s , C a n a d a , M e x i c o , Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia
How does tacit knowledge inscribe itself in cultural and social practices? The common distinction between tacit and explicit or discursive forms of knowledge does not explain this question. Therefore this volume reconstructs, describes, and analyzes the processes through which the tacit reveals itself. Essays focus on metaphors, myths, and visualizations as explications of the tacit, as well as on processes of embodiment. Taken together, they demonstrate that tacit does not constitute a single or unified knowledge complex but should be understood in its differentiated and fragmented forms. Frank Adloff
is professor of sociology at the University
of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Katharina Gerund
is coordinator of the interdisciplinary
University Experiments in Interdisciplinarity
Obstacles and Opportunities Peter Weingart and
Britta Padberg, Editors
Interdisciplinarity is an inflationary concept in higher education and science policy discourse. Yet recent reforms at European and U.S. universities reflect fundamental changes in the organization of knowledge production and teaching. This book takes a fresh look at the meaning given to the concept of interdisciplinarity with these reforms. It presents different forms of interdisciplinary research and teaching and places case studies within a broader context reflecting developments in the organization of universities and their implications for knowledge production. Peter Weingart
is former director of the Institut
doctoral program Presence and Tacit Knowledge at FAU
für Wissenschafts-und Technikforschung at Bielefeld
Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
University.
David Kaldewey
is a postdoctoral researcher at the
Britta Padberg
manages the Center for
Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, University of Bonn.
Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-2516-5
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D e c e m b e r 350 pages
Ava i l a b l e N o w 204 pages / 2 b&w illustrations
s o ci o lo gy / cultural studies
science / educati o n
P resence and Tacit K n owledge
S cience S tudies
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