Craft Learning as Perceptual Transformation: Getting ‘the Feel’ in the Wooden Boat Workshop

Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Getting ‘the Feel’ in the Craft Workshop
	A Turn in Discourse on Craft
	Existing Research on Perception and Skill
	Book Overview
	References
Chapter 2: Enduring Questions in Craft Research
	Systematic Approaches to Craft Learning
		New Interest in Apprenticeship
		From Apprenticeship to Situated Learning
		Perception as a Situated Practice
	Embodied Understanding in the Workshop
		Observing Bodies at Work
		Experiencing Work Through the Body
	Encountering Meaningful Materials
		Material Dialogue
		Material Agency and Affordances
	Chapter Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: The Wooden Boat Circuit
	Riverside Maritime Museum
		The Workshop
		The People
		The Work
	The USS Integrity
		The Ship and its Workshop
		The People
		The Work
	The Paloma
		The Ship and its Workshop
		The People
		The Work
	Chapter Conclusion
Chapter 4: Making Sense of Perceptual Experience
	Sensory Ethnography
		Ethnographic Attention to Sensory Experience
		Design Considerations
		Sensory-Ethnographic Fieldwork Techniques
	Analyzing Perceptual Transformation
		Being-in-the-World as Conceptual Touchstone
		The Phenomenal World and the ‘Community of Practice’
		In Contrast to Previous Heideggerian Analyses
	Relationships Between Ethnography and Philosophy
	Chapter Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Perception as Understanding
	Learning to See ‘As Something’
	Perspectives on Equipment
	Beyond Sight
	Perceiving the Work, Not the Equipment
	Chapter Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: Making it Real
	The Contextual Definition of Tools and Materials
	‘Realizing’ Contextually Dependent Objects
	Mutually Constitutive Parts and Wholes
	The Limits of ‘noticing’
	Chapter Conclusion
	Reference
Chapter 7: Navigating Workshop Communities
	The Socially Situated Nature of Work Practices
	Complementary Perspectives on Context
	Learning Within Workshops
	Learning Across Workshops
	Chapter Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Modeling Craft Learning as Perceptual Transformation
	On the Perception of Workshop Equipment
		Contextual Dependence
		Relationality in Perception
		Ontological Realization
	Structures to Support Craft Learning
		Stages in Self-motivated Learning
		Expert Guidance
		Occurrent Mimicry
	Communities of Practice and Phenomenal We-Worlds
		The Role of the Community of Practice in Learning
		The Role of the We-World of Shared Understanding
		Understanding as Capacity, Not Situated Activity
	References
Chapter 9: Conclusion
	References
Correction to: Craft Learning as Perceptual Transformation
Glossary of Boatbuilding Terminology1
Index