Muscles, Morals and Mind: Craft Apprenticeship and the Formation of Person

Autor/in	Marchand, Trevor H. J.
Titel	Muscles, Morals and Mind: Craft Apprenticeship and the Formation of Person
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Studies, 56 (2008) 3, S.245-271 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1005
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8527.2008.00407.x
Schlagwörter	Physical Activities; Apprenticeships; Foreign Countries; Linguistic Theory; Self Concept; Models; Educational Methods; Student Development; Case Studies; Learning Theories; Neurology; Interdisciplinary Approach; Skilled Occupations; Multiple Intelligences; Learning Processes; Vocational Education; Field Studies; Anthropology; Cross Cultural Studies; Mali; United Kingdom (London); Yemen + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Apprenticeship; Lehre; Ausland; Linguistische Theorie; Selbstkonzept; Analogiemodell; Educational method; Erziehungsmethode; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Neurologie; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Fachangestellter; Intelligenz (Psy); Learning process; Lernprozess; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Praxisforschung; Anthropologie; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Jemen
Abstract	The paper considers apprenticeship as a model of education that both teaches technical skills and provides the grounding for personal formation. The research presented is based on long-term anthropological fieldwork with minaret builders in Yemen, mud masons in Mali and fine-woodwork trainees in London. These case studies of on-site learning and practice support an expanded notion of knowledge that exceeds propositional thinking and language and centrally includes the body and skilled performance. Crafts--like sport, dance and other skilled physical activities--are largely communicated, understood and negotiated between practitioners without words, and learning is achieved through observation, mimesis and repeated exercise. The need for an interdisciplinary study of communication and understanding from the body is therefore underlined, and the paper suggests a way forward drawing on linguistic theory and recent neurological findings. It is argued that the validation and promotion of skilled practice as "intelligent" is necessary for raising the status and credibility of apprentice-style learning within our Western systems of education. (As Provided).
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