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TACIT KNOWLEDGE [1 record]

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Record 1 2025-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Training of Personnel
  • Education Theory and Methods
CONT

All knowledge elements deal with explicit, implicit and tacit knowledge. ... The third type of knowledge, namely tacit knowledge, is the most difficult [to] transfer. Tacit knowledge contains experience based knowledge ... [It] cannot completely be explained, since it is wholly embodied in the individual, rooted in practice and experience for which cognitive schemata are required ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
CONT

[...] les connaissances tacites sont des connaissances personnelles liées à la pratique, à l'expérience ainsi qu'aux compétences maîtrisées par un individu particulier. Ces connaissances ont un caractère intangible et abstrait [...] Ce type de connaissances est donc difficile à partager au regard de leur manque de structuration externalisée [...]

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