The social-constructivist discourse (practice-based perspective)

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What is a practice? (definitions + 2 remarks)

Practice refers to purposeful human activity. It assumes that activity includes both physical and cognitive elements, and that these elements are inseparable. Knowledge use and development is therefore regarded as a fundamental aspect of activity.

- Everyday actions are consequential
- Rejects dualism yet stresses rationality of mutual constitution.

According to practice-based perspective knowledge is: (8)

-Embedded in practice
-As multidimensional and non-dichotomous
-Embodied in people
-Socially constructed
-Culturally embedded   
-Contestable
-Embedded in stuff (material)
-Related to time and temporality

How to manage knowledge from a practice-based perspective?

-Less normative, research focuses on understanding the 'performative'
-Knowledge can hardly be managed (in codified libraries, or by managing knowledge in minds/practices of employees)
-Synoptic delusion
-About those lower down to find more ways to get connected-interrelating knowledge
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What is knowledge management according to practice-based perspective?(6)

Knowledge management= knowledge sharing.
-Rejection of conduit model (sender-receiver)
-Involves active interfering and constructing meaning
-Language game'
-Requires rich social interaction
-Immersion in practice- watching/ and or doing
-Sharing practical knowledge requires communicative competence - knowing how to use language appropriately in specific contexts of interaction.

How do rules function as norms and resources for practices? (6)

-Practices rest on normative infrastructure of rules. (regelingen tussen organisaties, individu-group etc.)
-Work is regulated by rules that shape situations
-Rules are a negotiated order, given and emergent
-Can be tacit and explicit
-Rules steer attention (attention rules)
-Routines (pattern of actions belonging to a practice) have 'ostensive' and 'performative' aspects.

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