"Embodiment, emotion and empathy: A phenomenological approach to apprenticeship learning"

by Gieser, Thorsten (2008)

Abstract

In The Perception of the Environment (2000), Ingold has argued that differences in cultural knowledge are more a matter of variation in embodied skills than in discursive knowledge. These skills develop through the practitioners' engagement with their environment and in situated social relationships. In order to `discover' for themselves what is taken for granted for experienced practitioners, they have to `fine-tune' their perception through observation and imitation. But how do observations and imitations of others' movements actually transfer into shifts in one's own perception? In her book Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion (2002), Milton argued that emotion acts as a learning mechanism to filter attention. I propose that when one observes and imitates in a process of learning, one enters into an empathic relationship with a skilled practitioner. Through synchronization of intentions and movements, emotions spread over and change the practitioners' perception accordingly.

Keywords

Embodiment, Skill, Dryfus, Heidegger, Cultural Knowledge, Discursive Knowledge, Perception

Themes

On Heidegger, Apprenticeship

Links to Reference

• https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499608093816
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463499608093816
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1463499608093816?casa_token=9b97PmneCukAAAAA:BBoe5P97GGll1RQPuhhv9yn-V6YwL3mcHK5cenWQAvTpXZ1vYyBd6Vts_18vWqBj1_gr72iDr1k
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1463499608093816?casa_token=edwdthbSdBEAAAAA:dTbHJ62XIspBXDT1hOhVYwG_rEA7VfCTp9EeJ2913p-Zpbf1ipKD8xBC9PWP6czqEtzT2Jen-bA

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