Personal construction of formal knowledge

5 Indeterminacy and the Construction of Personal Knowledge

Personal Knowledge Management: Competitive Competency of Knowledge Workers

Dynamic and complex circumstances of any organization, especially educational organizations critically require creative and innovative knowledge workers. Various skills such as personal knowledge management (PKM) are necessary to succeed in job and professional career. PKM is one of the best sources of personal, collective, and organizational innovations and proper direction of organizatio...

On the Weaving of Documents and Formal Knowledge, a Personal Knowledge Approach

In this problem analysis paper, we address the problem of weaving documents and formal knowledge. With the emergence of increasingly integrated technologies for handling conjointly these different kinds of information, we claim that this question deserves attention and careful study from the knowledge engineering perspective. We advocate for a global framework that would help to conceptualise, ...

Citation and the Construction of Subdisciplinary Knowledge

The main purpose of this study was to examine the citation patterns of discussion sections employed by local and international article writers in ESP and EGP subdisciplines of applied linguistics. Eighty article discussion sections were selected from well-established local and international journals in the field of applied linguistics, and they were sorted according to Thompson and Tribble’s (2...

The Construction of Personal Learning Networks to Support Non-Formal Workplace Learning of Training Professionals

Workers in the 21 century workplace are faced with rapid and constant developments that place a heavy demand on them to continually learn beyond what the Human Resources and Training groups can meet. As a consequence, professionals must rely on non-formal learning approaches through the development of a personal learning network to keep up-to-date. This phenomenological study used an explanator...