Paramedic Practice – Knowledge Invested in Action

Features Missing in Action: Knowledge Management Systems in Practice

This paper presents the results from a multiplecase study of knowledge management systems (KM -systems) in practical use. A set of general problem areas concerning the investigated KM -systems has been identified. These problem areas constitute the starting point of the discussion regarding design implications of KM -systems. One conclusion is that significant functions are missing in the KM -s...

Collective Action and Knowledge Contribution in Electronic Networks of Practice

Although there has been a significant increase in networked communication and a growing interest in virtual organizing, to date researchers have yet to establish consistent terminology and have paid little attention to how specific characteristics of the electronic network influence social dynamics such as knowledge contribution. To address this gap, we develop a theoretical model and a set of ...

Knowledge and Action in Classroom Practice: A Dialogic Approach

In 1987, Lee Shulman and Hugh Sockett had an important exchange in the Harvard Educational Review. Shulman argued for the central role of knowledge in good teaching. Sockett responded that good teaching cannot be understood as primarily a matter of knowledge and skills, because it centrally involves moral action in particular contexts. This essay sharpens the question of whether knowledge-based...

Social Knowledge and Social Action: Heterogeneity in Practice

Th is paper is about some of the social aspects of knowledge and action relevant to th ink ing in A I , and in par t icu lar the basic experience of mu l t i p l e perspectives and integrat ing different kinds of local knowledge. It discusses ways of re th ink ing a number of fami l ia r concepts inc lud ing facts, in teract ion, knowledge, and organ iza t ion , rais ing questions about how wel...

Medicine and evidence: knowledge and action in clinical practice.