'They start to get malicia': Teaching tacit and technical knowledge

Neil Stephens, Sara Delamont*

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Abstract

The sociological study of education involves focusing upon teaching and learning, upon explicit instruction and the acquisition of the tacit knowledge and skills that are essential if learners are to become enculturated into a new habitus. Sociological insight into these processes can come from research on conventional educational settings, but is greater when unfamiliar, settings are studied. This paper focuses upon a pedagogic setting of an unconventional kind - a martial art, capoeira.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)537-548
Number of pages12
JournalBritish Journal of Sociology of Education
Volume30
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2009

Keywords

  • Capoeira
  • Habitus
  • Instruction
  • Knowledge
  • Malicia

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Education
  • Sociology and Political Science

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