Dialogue, Skill and Tacit Knowledge

List of Contributors ix

Introduction 1
Richard Ennals

Part 1 Dialogue and Skill 7

Chapter 1 The Practice of the Use of Computers: A Paradoxical Encounter between Different Traditions of Knowledge 9
Bo Göranzon

Chapter 2 Writing as a Method of Reflection 22
Maria Hammarén

Chapter 3 The Dialogue Seminar as a Foundation for Research on Skill 46
Adrian Ratkic

Chapter 4 The Methodology of the Dialogue Seminar 57
Bo Göranzon and Maria Hammarén

Part 2 Theatre and Work 67

Chapter 5 A Dwelling Place for Past and Living Voices, Passions and Characters 69
Erland Josephson

Chapter 6 Theatre and Knowledge 73
Allan Janik

Part 3 Case Studies 85

Chapter 7 Dialogue Seminar as a Tool: Experience from Combitech Systems 87
Niclas Fock

Chapter 8 Maximum Complexity 110
Christer Hoberg

Chapter 9 Better Systems Engineering with Dialogue 135
Göran Backlund and Jan Sjunnesson

Chapter 10 Some Aspects of Military Practices and Officers’ Professional Skills 152
Peter Tillberg

Chapter 11 Science and Art 175
Karl Dunér, Lucas Ekeroth and Mats Hanson

Part 4 Dialogue Seminar As Reflective Practice 187

Chapter 12 Tacit Knowledge and Risks 189
Bo Göranzon

Chapter 13 Skill, Storytelling and Language: on Reflection as a Method 203
Maria Hammarén

Chapter 14 Reading and Writing as Performing Arts: at Work 216
Øyvind Pålshaugen

Chapter 15 Knowledge and Reflective Practice 229
Kjell S. Johannessen

Chapter 16 Dialogue, Depth, and Life Inside Responsive Orders: From External Observation to Participatory Understanding 243
John Shotter

Part 5 Tacit Knowledge and Literature 267

Chapter 17 Rule Following, Intransitive Understanding and Tacit Knowledge: An Investigation of the Wittgensteinian Concept of Practice as Regards Tacit Knowing 269
Kjell S. Johannessen

Chapter 18 Henrik Ibsen: Why We Need Him More Than Ever 295
Allan Janik

Part 6 Conclusions 305

Chapter 19 Theatre and Workplace Actors 307
Richard Ennals

Chapter 20 Training in Analogical Thinking: The Dialogue Seminar Method in Basic Education, Further Education and Graduate Studies 320
Bo Göranzon, Maria Hammarén, Adrian Ratkic

Index 334