Overview
Reflects a budding interdisciplinary interest in embodied research, materiality, and sensory methods
Engages with complex ideas about embodiment and cognition that are gaining traction in anthropology, philosophy, and cognitive science
Offers a philosophical analysis of hands-on learning, of import to scholars and students in philosophy and education
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Through an examination of three wooden boat workshops on the East coast of the United States, this volume explores how craftspeople interpret their tools and materials during work, and how such perception fits into a holistic conception of practical skill. The author bases his findings on first-person fieldwork as a boat builder’s apprentice, during which he recorded his changing sensory experience as he learned the basics of the trade. The book reveals how experience in the workshop allows craftspeople to draw new meaning from their senses, constituting meaningful objects through perception that are invisible to the casual observer. Ultimately, the author argues that this kind of perceptual understanding demonstrates a fundamental mode of human cognition, an intelligence frequently overlooked within contemporary education.
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About the author
Tom Martin received his PhD from Oxford University, UK, in 2019. His current research continues to investigate the sensory aspects of practical understanding, while also considering the humanistic potential of craft learning within and beyond the paradigm of liberal education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Craft Learning as Perceptual Transformation
Book Subtitle: Getting ‘the Feel’ in the Wooden Boat Workshop
Authors: Tom Martin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64283-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64282-2Published: 12 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64285-3Published: 12 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64283-9Published: 11 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 255
Number of Illustrations: 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethnography, Creativity and Arts Education, Cultural Heritage, Sociology of Culture, Research Methodology