Reflection on Session 1 Part 2

I enjoyed reading the article on the concept of 'Ba'.

This article gave a snapshot of the different learning theories. Behaviourism, Cognitive Theory, Constructiviism, Cognitive Constructivism and Social Constructivism. I believed I studied this a long time ago as a trainee but it made no sense to me then. At least, after reading the article today, I sort of understood them. Perhaps I became smarter or wiser....or perhaps right now, I have the teaching experience to appreciate the concepts.

The idea of tacit and explicit knowledge is also intriging. I believe most experts in their field contain alot of tacit knowledge and because these knowledge are "in their head", this make the experts expert. They have knowledge that makes them valuable. However in an organisation, there is a drive to make the tacit explicit. SOPs and guidelines are mechanism by organisation to ensure that the tacti becomes explicit such that if the expert leave the organisation, their loss will not be felt that greatly.

I believe what I am doing now in the course is something like the SECI and the ESCIE.
There are readings that allow us for explicitation, socialisation in person and via e-platform, internalisation and externalisation when we have to do blogging and the wiki, and all the learning are combined together in the end.

On a side note, the diagrammatic depiction of ESCIE, does look like a figure eight or "Ba" in Mandarin.