Field work reflections: Journeys in knowing and not-knowing

Coparticipation at work: Knowing and work practicer

Knowing and Not Knowing about Trauma: Implications for Therapy

Levels of awareness for trauma and their consequences for research, treatment, and prevention within professional psychology and society are considered. When people must endure chronically traumatic environments, it may be adaptive to isolate from awareness information that would produce cognitive dissonance and threaten necessary relationships. Unawareness may also facilitate functioning in en...

Knowing or Not Knowing: Children’s Concept of ‘Having Life’

Knowledge development in children has long been investigated. Generally two main streams of thoughts have evolved. One approach suggests that knowledge is built up in a progressive manner based on some underlying principles which can be modified by experiences (Murphy & Medin, 1985). Alternatively, a pragmatic-shift approach argues that restructuring in concept structure is common in developmen...

Knowing How vs . Knowing That

More than forty years after Gilbert Ryle published his paper on "Knowing How and Knowing That" in 1945, 1 the problem of practical knowledge has still failed to establish for itself a secure position in the field of problems dealt with by analytic philosophers. Thus even today it can safely be asserted that it is discursive or theoretical knowledge, knowledge linguistically expressed, above all...

Emancipatory knowing: Hidden necessity

Background & Aim: Knowledge patterns in nursing are key foundation elements for the development of knowledge and practice. Carper identified four fundamental knowledge patterns; empirical, personal, ethical and aesthetic. Chain and Kramer added the pattern of emancipatory knowledge to Carperchr('39')s patterns. The pattern of emancipatory knowledge in nursing has been neglected. The aim of this...