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Hubert Dreyfus

Novice

Instructor
  • decomposing situations into context free rules and features
  • supplies facts and procedures to be learned
  Student
  • consumer of information, passive learner
  • can learn whenever it is convenient

Advanced Beginner

Instructor - Coach
  • helps to pick out and recognise relevant aspects
  • points out aspects of the current situation, as student encounters them
  Student
  • builds up on rules, maxims of rules
  • recognises new situational aspects on basis of experience
  • needs previous understanding of the domain

Competence

Student
  • overload of rules -> involvement & experience experience shows how to discriminate between important information and one that can be ignored.
  • learn to restrict themselves
  • narrow down No. of rules, features and aspects
It is a frightening experience, because students feels responsible for their actions. The process involves stress and strong emotional involvement. Students are cautious of every step, learning through interactions and experience. From the behaviourists point of view this process is based on both: reward and punishment. At the end of the process students get rewarded for their good behaviour and successful outcome and punished for bad behaviour and their failure. In either (success or failure) case they reflect on the outcome and learn from that. They learn to negotiate the rules for themselves, and at the same time start developing a repertoire of an expert.

Proficiency

Student
  • sees what needs to be done
  • sees goals, but does not know what to do to achieve these goals because has not yet had enough experience
  • spontaneous seeing, but must still decide (fall back on rules and maxims) what to do
Students needs to think what they are doing. They get it right most of the time, but still think about it.

Expertise

Designer
  • not only sees what needs to be done, he also sees immediately how to achieve this goal
  • ability to make more refined, subtle discriminations
  • classes and subclasses situations - immediate intuitive situational response
  • wide range of experimental patterns
Experts developed the sense for seeing patterns, they have an overall view on thing, can see the big picture. Pattern recognition is the situational knowledge in action, a reflective practice, sense for something. Eventhough they still tend to imitate teacher’s style that they picked up. They don’t realise that they are doing it.

Mastery

Designer
  • develop a style of their own
  • travel around and work in various communities of practice
  • ABILITY TO HAVE A REPERTOIRE OF STYLES
  • ABILITY TO CHANGE STYLES
However, at this stage the person is in danger, because as he naturalised the rules of design, he might leap through certain stages and might fall, reducing design to aesthetics and turning his style into a rule.

Practical Wisdom

Designer
  • embodied understanding of cultural style
Aristotle calls practical wisdom - the general ability to do the appropriate thing, at the appropriate time, in the appropriate way.

 

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