Abstract
Decoding the Disciplines provides a tool to help unlock expert blindspots in disciplinary thinking. Unpacking tacit knowledge can be helpful to the expert who is attempting to teach those concepts to novices. The original orientation of the work was cognitive. Since then, aspects of disciplinary knowledge have come into focus beyond the strict focus on mental operations, such as emotional, phenomenological, and identity elements. The authors live and work in different national contexts (Canada and Norway), yet share a common background in hermeneutics as a research methodology. This paper explores the results of a small series of Decoding interviews where we focused on what we saw to be hermeneutic aspects of the expert’s experience. In the course of analysis, our interest became the narrative aspects of the expert’s understanding – how experts in disciplines narrate their coming to know and their existing knowledge as aspects of their being-in-the-world.
Bibliographic data
Yeo, M. & Stalheim, O. R. (2025). Further Explorations of Decoding the Disciplines: Narrative and Hermeneutic Aspects. Didaktiknachrichten 05/2025, in press
