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In: | Management Learning, 49, 2018, 1, S. 23-39 |
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SAGE Publications
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 23-39 |
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ISSN: |
1461-7307
1350-5076 |
DOI: | 10.1177/1350507617725188 |
veröffentlicht in: | Management Learning |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kollektion: | SAGE Publications (CrossRef) |
<jats:p> This article explores the role of embodied, sensible knowledge in practice-based learning. Despite recent efforts to conceptualize how practitioners become skillful through corporeal and sensible learning, it still seems under-theorized and hard to understand what this exactly entails. The aim of this article is to account for the inherently embodied and sensible nature of knowledge by drawing on a 2-year ethnographic study of train dispatchers in a railway control room. Embodied and sensible knowledge is developed through the work of Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, as phenomenology is a way to theorize the body beyond being an object to, instead, account for embodiment as lived and experienced. The data show that such knowledge can be understood as a matter of ‘attunement’: dispatchers become progressively skillful in bringing their bodies and senses in tune with practical situations and perturbations in the environment. The article contributes to a richer understanding of embodiment, especially in the relation between knowledge and practices, in organization studies and management learning. </jats:p> |