Abstract

FIGUEIREDO, Marina Dantas de. Between language and know-how: a proposition for understanding practical knowledge. Rev. Inter Ação [online]. 2015, vol.40, n.3, pp.459-577. ISSN 0101-7136.  https://doi.org/10.5216/ia.v40i3.35613.

The paper aims to formulate alternatives to cross the difficulties of studying the phenomenon of learning through practice, which is known as know-how. For this purpose, we have built theoretical articulations that put side by side a phenomenological perspective, based on the embodiment paradigm, and an approach that gathers language and practice, which is the theory of embodied metaphors. We understand that such difficulties are oriented around ontological premises of the modern science, which are: the limits between objectivity and subjectivity and representational ways of communicating knowledge. We conclude that ethnographical research conducted according to phenomenological models, such as the categories of ethnography of experience, is a proper methodological alternative for studying practical knowledge.

Keywords : Practical Knowledge; Embodiment Paradigm; Know-How; Ethnography.

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