NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Tacit Knowledge, Relational Theory
5 Jan 2016
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Expertise is real (substantive, not just relational) but it comes in many different forms. Specialist expertise - important for understanding the distinctive nature of science: relies heavily upon forms of tacit knowledge. The relational theory of expertise exposes the collective nature of all scientific activity: on its own, it cannot tell us how to act. The nature of expertise is relative and can change according to the place (languages) and time (access to technology: ubiquitous expertise - expresses this relative distribution of expertise. Specialized and meta-expertise - kinds of substantive expertise: specialized scientific expertise - not widespread because our society is not currently structured in a way to make such expertise widespread. Acquired through social contact and reading (not by doing: these two are focused on a limited field of research but are passive - acquired by reception, not performance. Interactional expertise and contributory expertise are more crucial components o.
