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“Our Hands Will Know”: The Development of Tactile Diagnostic Skill—Teaching, Learning, and Situated Cognition in a Physical Therapy Program
Author(s) -
Rose Mike
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1999.30.2.133
Subject(s) - situated , situated cognition , situated learning , competence (human resources) , psychology , cognition , set (abstract data type) , observational learning , observational study , cognitive apprenticeship , experiential learning , cognitive science , pedagogy , computer science , social psychology , artificial intelligence , medicine , pathology , neuroscience , programming language
Relying on observational and interview data from a clinical practice class in a graduate physical therapy program, I examine, within a situated cognition framework, the teaching and learning of a concept in biomechanics, the manual techniques and tactile discrimination skills that accompany it, and the diagnostic frame of mind that informs concept, technique, and skill. In examining this complex set of practices, I hope to add to and qualify the literature on working knowledge, participation and competence, and situated learning and pedagogy.