Multiple Perspectives on the Same Event: Professional Vision, Tactility, and Embodied Feeling
Multiple Perspectives on the Same Event: Professional Vision, Tactility, and Embodied Feeling

Summary/Abstract: A recurrent theme in Chuck Goodwin’s development of a theoretical framework for the analysis of human action, is the focus on knowledge and encounters between novices and experts, dating from the seminal and often cited article “Professional vision” (1994) to more recent work such as “Participation, stance and affect in the organization of activities” (2007) and “The co-operative, transformative organization of human action and knowledge” (2013). In these and other texts, Goodwin has, in thought-provoking, fruitful, and inspiring ways, empirically and theoretically explored the interactive organization of apprenticeship and how novices become epistemically competent actors through engaging in co-operative action together with more experienced participants. The focus on knowledge and epistemics encompasses on the one hand a focus on how “[t]he ability to create through practice the meaningful actions and objects that animate work, knowledge and discourse within specific communities requires that one be a competent member of that community” (Goodwin 2013: 19).

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