Carlin2021
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Carlin2021 |
| Author(s) | Andrew Carlin, Joanna Marques, Ricardo Moutinho |
| Title | Seeing by proxy: Specifying “professional vision” |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Astronomy education, Instruction, Perspicuous settings, Professional vision, Sunspots, Telescope, Transparent vision |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Learning, Culture and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 30 |
| Number | Part A |
| Pages | 100532 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.lcsi.2021.100532 |
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Abstract
Professional vision has become a key concept for the study of expertise. This paper celebrates the sophistication of Charles Goodwin's (1994) formulation of the concept by specifying a form of professional vision, rather than relying on its coinage to do the work of analysis. Video of a public astronomy education session in a Portuguese observatory shows how the astronomer instructs a young boy to recognize sunspots against the background of the Sun. The astronomer is unable to see what the visitor sees; yet he can explain the visitor's observation, which he does through a question and answer sequence. We call this practice of making astronomical sense of observations “seeing by proxy”. Seeing by proxy specifies professional vision as a cultural method of instruction. It particularizes professional vision as a praxeological not a conceptual matter.
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