The active role of instruments in articulating knowing and knowledge: the case of animal qualification practices in breeding organisations

Julie Labatut (), Franck Aggeri (), Jean-Michel Astruc (), Bernard Bibé and Nathalie Girard ()
Additional contact information
Julie Labatut: AGIR - AGroécologie, Innovations, teRritoires - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse
Franck Aggeri: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jean-Michel Astruc: SAGA - Station d'Amélioration Génétique des Animaux - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Bernard Bibé: Animal breeding unit - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Nathalie Girard: AGIR - AGroécologie, Innovations, teRritoires - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of instruments defined as artefacts, rules, models or norms, in the articulation between knowing-in-practice an knowledge, in learning processes. The paper focuses on a particuar activity: qualification of ewes in the breeding sector. It is based on observation and practice-based studies. The study of instruments used in daily practices allows us to go beyond the dichotomy between opposite types of knowledge, i.e. scientific knowledge seen as a stock and sensible knowledge seen as purely tacit and equated to non-instrumental practices. The paper complements more classical practice-based approaches by proposing a new perspective of instruments in learning processes, which is to particular relevance where power is diffuse.

Keywords: management technologies; breeding; knowledge process; learning process; agriculture; knowledge management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in The Learning Organization, 2009, 16 (5), pp.371-385. ⟨10.1108/09696470910974162⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00468449

DOI: 10.1108/09696470910974162

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().