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Outline of a Theory of Practice.
Arthur W. Frank,Pierre Bourdieu +1 more
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1980-03-01. It has received 14683 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Practice theory.read more
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The nature of knowledge in business schools
Robert Chia,Robin Holt +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that risks of ignorance and detachment emerge from this singular attachment to knowledge-by-representation in business schools and the need for an alternative, accompanying form of knowledge associated with the art of management that can be transmitted through exemplary behaviour within the business education process is identified.
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Theorizing practice in economic geography: Foundations, challenges, and possibilities
Andrew M. Jones,James T. Murphy +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the diverse strands of economic geography scholarship that have an explicit interest in practices and then propose an epistemological and methodological framework for a practice-oriented economic geography.
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Critical thinking: seven definitions in search of a concept
TL;DR: The authors investigated ideas about critical thinking as held by academics working in three disciplines: history, philosophy and cultural studies, and found that at least seven definitional strands were identified in the informants' commentaries, namely critical thinking: (i) as judgement; (ii) as skepticism; (iii) as a simple originality; (iv) as sensitive readings; (v) as rationality; (vi) as an activist engagement with knowledge; and (vii) self-reflexivity.
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Owning the Code: Status Closure in Distributed Groups
TL;DR: The superimposition of geographic and status distance in remote work lowered the cost of exclusion of one group from the collaboration and led to the deepening of status differences between remote groups.
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Vaccinations in the Third World: a consideration of community demand.
TL;DR: How immunizations are perceived by lay populations and how perceptions of utility and need effect demand effect demand which in turn effects the sustainability of EPI programs are considered.