Knowra Tacit knowledge Tacit knowledge Tacit knowledge is practical understanding that people acquire through experience but cannot fully articulate or reduce to explicit rules. It is often expressed through skilled judgment and action.
Procedural knowledge : Knowledge of how to perform actions, skills, or procedures. It captures the action-oriented knowledge that often remains difficult to verbalize.
Michael Polanyi : A Hungarian-British scientist and philosopher who developed the modern account of tacit knowledge. He gave the concept its influential formulation: people know more than they can tell.
Knowledge management : The practices and systems organizations use to create, share, retain, and apply knowledge. Organizations develop methods to preserve and circulate expertise that resists documentation.
Explicit knowledge : Knowledge expressed in forms that can be documented, communicated, and stored. It is the clearest counterpart to knowledge that remains difficult to articulate.
Situated learning : Learning through participation in social activities and real-world contexts. Tacit know-how grows through participation in the settings where it is used.
The Tacit Dimension : Michael Polanyi’s 1966 book on the tacit foundations of knowing. This book set out Polanyi’s account of tacit knowing in detail.
Knowledge transfer : The movement of knowledge between people, groups, or organizations. Tacit expertise often transfers through shared work, observation, and mentoring.
Declarative knowledge : Knowledge of facts and propositions that can be stated explicitly. Its verbal form contrasts with the practical competence central to tacit knowledge.
Deliberate practice : Structured practice designed to improve performance through focused effort and feedback. Repeated, feedback-rich practice can build expertise that exceeds verbal instruction.
Personal knowledge : Michael Polanyi’s account of knowledge as involving personal commitment and judgment. Polanyi situated tacit knowing within a broader critique of impersonal objectivity.
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