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Embodying skilful performance : co-constituting body and world in biotechnology
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Dall’Alba, Gloria, Sandberg, Jörgen and Sidhu, Ravinder Kaur (2018) Embodying skilful performance : co-constituting body and world in biotechnology. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50 (3). pp. 270-286. doi:10.1080/00131857.2017.1343114 ISSN 0013-1857.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1343114
Abstract
This article offers a philosophical-empirical account of embodied skilful performance in the practice of plant biotechnology. Drawing on the work of Merleau-Ponty and others, we elaborate how skilful performance emerges from and through reciprocal relations encompassing the body-in-the-world and the world-in-the-body. The contribution of this article lies in offering an account of skilful performance that is attentive to a perceiving, motile, feeling body entwined with world. In genetically modifying plants, scientists direct their senses of touch and vision to manipulating plant materials and matter, ‘reading’ subtle changes in tissue cultures, plantlets and so on. In rhythmic movements, they extend their bodies through skilful use of complex equipment, while calling on ‘intuition’ to guide their work. Skilful performance, then, relies on our lived body that is not merely a physical object among other objects, nor a passive instrument for the mind, but dynamic and inescapably entwined with people and things in a world in flux. Bringing to the fore how perceiving, motile, feeling bodies are implicated in skilful performance has significant implications for education and workplace training.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Educational Philosophy and Theory | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 0013-1857 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2018 | ||||||
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Volume: | 50 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 270-286 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/00131857.2017.1343114 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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