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- Co-Operative Action
- Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
- Co-Operative Action
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What Is Co-Operative Action, and Why Is It Important?
- Part I Co-Operative Accumulative Action
- Part II Intertwined Semiosis
- Part III Embodied Interaction
- Part IV Co-Operative Action with Predecessors
- 16 Co-Operative Action with Predecessors
- 17 The Accumulation of Diversity through Co-Operative Action
- 18 Seeing in Depth
- 19 Co-Operative Action as the Source of, and Solution to, the Task Faced by Every Community of Creating New, Culturally Competent Members with Specific Forms of Knowledge and Skill
- Part V Professional Vision, Transforming Sensory Experience into Types, and the Creation of Competent Inhabitants
- References Cited
- Index
- Series page
18 - Seeing in Depth
from Part IV - Co-Operative Action with Predecessors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2017
- Co-Operative Action
- Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
- Co-Operative Action
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What Is Co-Operative Action, and Why Is It Important?
- Part I Co-Operative Accumulative Action
- Part II Intertwined Semiosis
- Part III Embodied Interaction
- Part IV Co-Operative Action with Predecessors
- 16 Co-Operative Action with Predecessors
- 17 The Accumulation of Diversity through Co-Operative Action
- 18 Seeing in Depth
- 19 Co-Operative Action as the Source of, and Solution to, the Task Faced by Every Community of Creating New, Culturally Competent Members with Specific Forms of Knowledge and Skill
- Part V Professional Vision, Transforming Sensory Experience into Types, and the Creation of Competent Inhabitants
- References Cited
- Index
- Series page
Summary
On oceanographic research vessels scientists from different disciplines must work together to obtain samples from the sea beneath their ship. Such juxtaposition of not just theory, but actual laboratory practice, creates unique possibilities for synergy, as members of one discipline co-operatively make use of the tools of another. Multiple kinds of space – including the sea under the ship, graphic representations, the work space of the lab, and embodied participation frameworks for the organization of tool-mediated human interaction – are constituted through a range of temporally unfolding, work-relevant, situated practices. Particular attention is paid to how three parties work together to position an instrument precisely in the sea. Because each actor uses alternative tools to organize his or her perception in ways appropriate to complementary tasks required for the successful accomplishment of the sampling run, each sees the place they are looking at together in a very different way. Both diverse resources provided by each other, and architectures for perception inherited from predecessors, are accumulatively reused with transformation to co-operatively accomplish their night’s work.
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- Co-Operative Action , pp. 275 - 306Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017