Modes of Knowing

From Action to Writing: Modes of Representing and Knowing

In his book, Before Writing, Gunter Kress (1997) discusses the many modes in which children represent meaning before they master the system of writing. His illustrations include: drawings, some of them coloured in, or cut out and adorned with further material; three-dimensional figures; and my favorite a photograph of a ‘pillow car’, made from two wire-mesh drawers, a pillow, a red toolbox and ...

Words, Words, Words: What’s the Point: Modes of Knowing in the Philosophical Study of Literature

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...

Knowing Me, Knowing You: Networks of Cooperation

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...