Auswahl der wissenschaftlichen Literatur zum Thema „Alternative Socialisation“

Technoscience is deeply linked to national cultures across terrains as diverse as medicine, agricultural biotechnologies, ICTs, energy technologies, etc. Understanding the cultural dimension of technoscience is vital for the project of socialisation. This project should be embedded in technological and political cultures, taking variation in cultural approaches to technoscience, national identity and political decision-making seriously. Socialisation of science and technology in Europe should therefore approach socio-technical developments in a way that allows for the emergence of controversies and alternative scenarios and their resolution. Only when we take the links between technological cultures, liberal democracy and technoscience seriously we will be able to confront some of today's most pressing and complex problems.

In the Handbook on the socialisation of scientific and technological research, edited by Wiebe Bijker and Luciano d’Andrea, ‘socialisation’ is used to both describe and prescribe the ways in which science and technology are used in society. In this comment, ‘socialisation’ is discussed from two other points of view. First, the ways in which science and technology are sometimes used to organize, structure and dominate the social are identified. Second, drawing on Merton’s norms of science, an argument is made against over-socialising science and in favour of acknowledging and preserving the ‘special’ nature of science, for its own sake and because, at its best, science can offer an alternative model for other social activities.

Despite the known health benefits of sport, recent studies showed that parenthood is related to decreased sport participation. Changes in sport behaviour after becoming a parent have been explained by gender or with the rational resource perspective of limited time and energy. However, the latter is mostly theoretical, since empirical insights on resource mechanisms are scarce. We want to improve and go beyond these explanations by investigating them empirically and by examining sport socialisation during the formative years as an alternative explanation. Consequently, our main objective is to explain changes in sport participation after becoming a parent with gender, limited resources and socialisation with sport. To this end, we employ representative Dutch survey data of new parents (n = 594), containing detailed information on sport careers and sport socialisation, as well as babysitter availability, partner support and physical discomfort after childbirth. The results of the logistic regression analyses show that, besides gender and resource mechanisms, sport socialisation and social support seem to have a great impact on sport behaviour when people become parents. That is, men are more likely to continue sport participation, as well as people with more resources (physical, temporal and social) and more socialisation with sport during the formative years. So including sport socialisation and social support seems necessary to better explain and prevent sport dropout during major life transitions, like becoming a parent.

The ‘New Paradigm’ of Sociology of Childhood famously maintains that childhood is socially constructed and supposedly places a much greater emphasis on the agency of children: children should not simply be framed as the passive receivers of socialisation. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that such a ‘social construction’ of childhood is not concretely articulated and that the theoretical understanding of the ‘social construction’ of childhood is simply delegated to historiographical or ethnographic accounts. In doing so, it advances a new criticism of the New Paradigm and radicalises previous ones. Here, key is the theoretical engagement with the concept of ‘human capital’: foregrounding its critique, this article proposes the link between ‘human capital’ as a neoliberal version of labour power and the concept of socialisation. The aim is to show that the ‘social construction’ of childhood is central, but the New Paradigm uses categories that are at the same time founded on neo-liberal views and abstracted from concrete social relations. This article maintains that a concrete critique of processes of socialisation (which is here understood as the socialisation of childhood as human capital) is needed instead of abstract critique of reified childhood. Two alternative pedagogical practices are used to provide an example of such a concrete critique.

In the UK, home education, or home-schooling, is an issue that has attracted little public, governmental or academic attention. Yet the number of children who are home educated is steadily increasing and the phenomenon has been referred to as a‘quiet revolution’. This paper neither celebrates nor denigrates home educators; its aim, rather, is to identify and critically examine the two dominant discourses that define the way in which the issue is currently understood. First, the legal discourse of parental rights, which forms the basis of the legal framework and, secondly, a child psychology/common-sense discourse of ‘socialisation’, within which school attendance is perceived as necessary for healthy child development. Drawing on historical sources, doctrinal human rights and child psychology and informed by post-structural and feminist perspectives, this article suggests that both discourses function as alternative methods of governance and that the conflicting ‘rights claims’ of parents and children obscure public interests and fundamental questions about the purpose of education.

Psychofortology is an alternative designation for positive psychology, and fortology (Latin fortis = strong) an antonym for pathology. The strengths paradigm has ancient origins. In this article brief reviews are presented of contributions made during the first eight decades of the twentieth century by mainly psychologists and psychiatrists. Among the most outstanding were James, Jung, Allport, Murray, Rogers, Frankl, Maslow, Csikszentmihalyi and Antonovsky; in all, some 40 forerunners are mentioned. By way of integration, their concepts are classified in terms of J. M. Digman's (1997) higher order personality factors a (socialisation process) and β (personal growth), as well as spirituality/religiousness. A preponderance of the personal growth category was noticeable, particularly from the late 1950s until the early 1970s. The relative neglect of socialisation and interdependencies deserves to be remedied in fortological theory and research.

Local cultural tourism in the village has become an increasingly interesting topic in the context of local economic development and preservation of cultural heritage and exotic experiences for tourists. The implementation of this service aims to provide a deeper understanding through socialisation activities in the application of local cultural tour packages as alternative tourist attractions in the Huta Tinggi Tourism village. The method of implementing this service activity is through a one-day seminar with the stages of observation, building communication regarding the willingness of partners, presentation of material, questions and answers and preparation of reports on the programmes that have been carried out. The focus of this socialisation presentation examines the economic impact, cultural preservation, and community participation in tourism development. By presenting tourist attractions that highlight the uniqueness of Huta Tinggi's local traditions, arts and culture, the village can maintain their heritage and encourage a better understanding of their cultural wealth, which is where the importance of this activityties.

AbstractSpectacled parrotlets live in a complex system of individual relationships throughout their lives. The adults form exclusive pair bonds, addressing all friendly and sexual behaviour patterns to each other. Pair mates cooperate in agonistic situations. As long as they stay close together they hold the same rank-order position. In mate-choice experiments females (not males) significantly preferred a mate which formerly held a high social position. There are also non-exclusive pair bonds, which are far less stable than exclusive ones. Only exclusive pairs have a good chance to occupy a breeding cavity. All group members are synchronized in many of their activities, such as foraging, preening or resting. They are keenly interested in unusual activities of other group members. Social learning, including copying sexual techniques, seems to be essential. After fledging the parents keep their offspring at a distance from a very early stage. Instead of a close parent-offspring relationship the fledglings form sibling groups with their nest mates. Over a period of months siblings remain the main interaction partners for all friendly and playful activities. They also support one another in agonistic situations. In the first months of life even courtship feeding and sexual behaviour are addressed predominantly to siblings. Thus a pair-like relationship is established between siblings, anticipating the permanent pair bond of adults. Single fledglings, deprived of the experience of a sibling group, remained poorly integrated into the group. They developed alternative socialisation tactics, namely (1) joining a host group of unrelated siblings, (2) renewing a friendly partnership with the parents, (3) helping to protect and feed younger siblings or even unrelated fledglings and (4) seeking early partnership with unrelated group members. Out of 10 single fledglings only the one that was accepted by a host sibling group immediately after fledging became well integrated into the whole group and reproduced well. It is argued that sibling groups offer good opportunities for learning partnership and function as a safe basis for exploring the social environment. It is tentatively proposed that single fledglings have a decreased probability of reproductive success.

Paul’s term huiothesia, ‘adoption as sons,’ has often been investigated along the more traditional lines of Christology, soteriology etc. However, rarely, if at all, have commentators recognised or acknowledged that this metaphor is an(other) important conversion-initiation term ‘best viewed against the ancient Roman socio-legal practice of adoption ‘ thereby making it a most appropriate term to describe what was happening to the early Pauline Christians who embraced the gospel. Just as adoption in Roman society signified a break with old familial ties and a commitment to a new familia, so conversion, or in Pauline nomenclature ‘adoption,’ denoted a new allegiance or a re-socialisation by joining the new family of God. But, whereas adoption as social reality caused no conflicting loyalties, in its metaphorical sense, applied to Christian converts, it invariably identified the tensions which existed between the natural and the new spiritual family. Moreover, according to modern sociological theory (i.e. Berger and Luckmann), if such a re-socialisation is to ‘succeed,’ it will best do so in circumstances where one’s primary socialisation took place i.e. a family-like fellowship. In light of this, it is instructive to note that Paul’s letter to the Galatians is not only the context where Paul employs his adoption term but is also the locus where he refers to the early Christians as a ‘household/family of believers’ (Gal. 6:10) thereby indicating the apostle’s awareness of adoption as a resocialisation process (cf. Gal. 1:13-16). This letter is one replete with familial terminology (e.g. ‘household-guardian,’ ‘infant,’ ‘father,’ ‘slaves,’ ‘sons,’ ‘heirs’ etc.), including the central focus on these early Christians as ‘adopted sons’ (Gal. 3:26-4:7) who probably came to regard the ekklesia, ‘the family of God,’ as an alternative or replacement for their natural families.

La recherche sur Internet comme technologie de la communication et de l'information est de plus en plus importante pour les pays en voie de développement qui considèrent les nouvelles technologies comme une alternative pour résoudre quelques contraintes dans leurs idées de progrès. Mais plus au delà de ce qu'Internet puisse vraiment solutionner, l'intérêt des pratiques sociales et culturelles qui s'associent à l'usage de la technologie restera toujours une problématique pour les sciences de la communication et de l'information. C'est pourquoi, dans le cas de la Colombie, il faut traiter le sujet de l'utilisation d'Internet non pas comme une question de rapport entre accès/possibilités d'utilisation = amélioration automatique des conditions sociales, mais comme une question d'enjeux entre ces usages de la technique et les changements sociaux -non pas toujours visibles ou mesurables, mais en tout cas présents dans les réalités des gens, au moins, comme quelque chose d'envisageable- et même des formes de construction des liens sociaux futurs. L'objet de ce travail est donc, de comprendre, à partir de l'analyse des usages et des représentations sociales collectives des jeunes, qui sont les principaux usagers des nouvelles techniques d'information et communication ? Comment Internet peut devenir une alternative utile et possible de construction de société et de production culturelle pour la Colombie ?
The research about Internet as a Technology of Information and Communication is more and more important for developing countries which consider the new technologies as an alternative to resolving their problems of progress. But, the interest on the social and cultural practices associated to technological uses is right now, even more than their true solutions offered: it's a very useful problem for Communication and Information Sciences. This is the case of a country as Colombia and this is the principal reason for being interested on Internet Uses and appropriations not only thinking on better social or political conditions Vs. Access/possibilities of use as an cause-effect relation, but as a complex relation of situations and rapports between the technique and social changes which are presents on people's realities and future possibilities of social progress. The principal object of this rapport is to understand the qualities of most important users of Internet in Colombia (young people), how their social practices are, and showing what kind of possibilities has Internet as alternative for a social and collective construction of community or society in that country

Australia, like most contemporary 'western' nations, has a large and growing movement of people into alternative lifestyles. In this thesis I firstly explore the history of utopian social movements, both in the broad context of western cultural history and within the more limited sphere of Australia. I conducted a nationwide survey of alternative lifestyle participants and undertook several years of participant observation study in order to elucidate the different types of contemporary alternative lifestyles, and to describe the social characteristics of participants. In general, participants are older and much better educated then was previously assumed. A number of myths, such as the central role of 'the dole' in the contemporary alternative lifestyle movement, were found wanting. I identify three main theoretical issues in alternative lifestyles: recruitment, socialisation and commitment. Recruitment is a problem both for groups looking for new members and for individuals seeking to join a group. Alternative lifestyle publications are employed by many groups as a means of recruiting new members. These same publications are also central in the process of anticipatory and adult socialisation. I explore the images of 'alternative lifestyles' presented by national publications such as Grass Roots and Earth Garden, and reach two conclusions: Firstly the 'alternative reality' is far more prosaic than one might have assumed, and secondly the range of alternative lifestyle publications provides a choice of socialisation patterns. This latter feature ensures that recruits can select a socialisation pattern which will challenge their pre-conceived notions as little as possible while still facilitating a myth of radical social change...
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The aim of this study is to explore hiphop music as an aspect of youth socialization and the relationship between music creation and identity. The study is conducted through five semi- structured qualitative individual interviews. Our theoretical starting points are Putnam’s (2000) bridging and bonding social capital symbolic interactionism. We also have used a model of learning presented by Fornäs, Lindberg and Sernhedes (1989). In our study it is presented as " model of learning." The study results have shown three important skills. The first conclusion is that involvement in hiphop culture can lead to an alternative learning about the society. Our second conclusion is that the alternative socialization of hiphop leads to integration. A third conclusion is that hiphop leads to a conscious identity.

À la marge de la révolution numérique, inconnu·es du grand public, des bénévoles continuent depuis trente ans, d’administrer et de fournir des services internet non lucratifs. Ces associations, parfois très anciennes, cherchent à faire vivre l’utopie organisationnelle qui remonte aux débuts du réseau et les valeurs qui s’y rattachent. Mais qu’est-ce qui pousse encore des bénévoles à défendre cette cause perdue ? Quelle fonction remplit leur engagement ? Comment le situer dans l’évolution d’internet ces trente dernières années ?Cette thèse propose une analyse sociologique de la « pratique utopique » et des conditions de sa « rémanence » à partir d’une enquête comparée entre la France et l’Allemagne, croisant ethnographie et travail d’archives. Grâce à la perspective de l’analyse configurationnelle empruntée à Norbert Elias, on expliquera comment la capacité conservatrice et adaptative de ce mouvement associatif répond aux frustrations relatives des déçu·es de la révolution numérique, en croisant les niveaux d’analyse structurel, organisationnel et individuel.La thèse commence par retracer la sociogenèse de l’internet associatif dans les années 1990, entre pratiques pionnières, marginalisation économique et insertion discrète dans les politiques publiques locales de la connexion. C’est dans les années 2000 que l’activité associative s’est « utopisée », sous l’action d’« entrepreneurs d’utopie », à la marge de l’espace du militantisme pour la défense des droits et libertés numériques alors émergent. Ensuite, sur le plan organisationnel, la thèse montre comment les associations de l’internet ont été travaillées de l’intérieur par les vagues successives de bénévoles investissant, en fonction de leurs socialisations propres à internet, un sens de la cause et un modèle d’organisation correspondant.Enfin, sur le plan individuel, grâce à une division du travail utopique permettant d’exercer autrement son métier, l’engagement dans ces associations a comporté des rétributions tant pour les pionniers que pour les bénévoles plus tardifs. Trait d’union entre des socialisations alternatives constituantes du rapport à l’apprentissage, désir d’autonomie, de liberté et de sécurité, les associations créent les conditions d’une utopie individuelle pour ceux, et plus rarement celles, qui parviennent à s’y intégrer, compensant les rapports de force dont ils et elles font par ailleurs l’expérience au travail.Ainsi, tout en organisant la conservation de pratiques pré-marchandes de collaborationentre pairs, l’internet associatif offre des voies de transformations à ses adeptes, notamment sur le plan du rapport individuel et collectif à l’activité. La comparaison permet de saisir quant à elle les contours d’une utopie internet européenne et ce que la diversité des pratiques utopiques doit aux structures nationales de pouvoir, notamment en matière de régulation du marché des télécommunications. Au-delà d’une perspective normative voyant dans l’utopie en société un facteur de changement univoque ou un système d’idées opposé aux fictions conservatrices, tourné vers une société meilleure, cette thèse entend contribuer à la compréhension sociologique des phénomènes utopiques à partir des logiques pratiques
On the fringes of the digital revolution, unknown to the general public, volunteers have been administering and providing non-profit Internet services for thirty years. These associations, some of them very old, are trying to keep alive the organisational utopia that dates back to the beginnings of the network and the values associated with it. But what is it that still drives volunteers to defend this lost cause? What function does their commitment fulfil? And how does it fit into the evolution of the internet over the last thirty years?This thesis offers a sociological analysis of the “utopian practice” and the conditions of its persistence, based on a comparative survey between France and Germany combining ethnography and archival work. Using the perspective of configuration analysis borrowed from Norbert Elias, we will explain how the conservative and adaptive capacity of this associative movement responds to the relative frustrations of those disappointed by the digital revolution, by crossing structural, organisational and individual levels of analysis.The thesis begins by tracing the sociogenesis of the associative Internet in the 1990s, between pioneering practices, economic marginalisation and discreet insertion into local public connection policies. It was in the 2000s that associative activity became ‘utopian’, through the actions of ‘utopian entrepreneurs’, on the fringes of the then emerging activism in defence of digital rights and freedoms. Secondly, the thesis shows, from an organisational point of view, how Internet associations were shaped from the inside by successive waves of volunteers who, according to their own socialisation on the Internet, invested in a sense of the cause and a corresponding organisational model. Finally, on an individual level, thanks to a utopian division of labour that enabled people to practise their profession in a different way, we will explain how involvement in these associations was rewarded for pioneers and later volunteers alike. As a link between the alternative socialisations that make up the relationship to learning, the desire for autonomy, freedom and security, the associations create the conditions for an individual utopia for those who manage to join them, compensating for the power relationships they experience at work.So, while organising the preservation of pre-market practices of collaboration between peers, the associative internet offers its followers avenues of transformation, particularly regarding the individual and collective relationship to activity. The comparison enables us to grasp the contours of a European Internet utopia and what the diversity of utopian practices owes to national power structures, particularly regarding regulation of the telecommunications market. Beyond a normative perspective that sees utopia in society as a factor for unambiguous change, or as a system of ideas opposing conservative fictions and geared towards a better society, this thesis aims to contribute to a sociological understanding of utopian phenomena based on an analysis of their logical practices

Cette thèse ambitionne de faire la sociologie d'un mode d'engagement qui est aussi une forme de rapport spécifique au politique : le militantisme libertaire. Entendu au sens large, il s'agit de l'engagement dans des organisations horizontales (dépourvues de hiérarchie), autonomes des institutions de la démocratie représentative et pratiquant l'action directe (de la manifestation traditionnelle aux occupations et autres squats). C'est à travers l'étude des socialisations successives des militants (primaires, au sein de la famille, puis secondaires, dans les groupes de pairs et dans le collectif militant) qu'est envisagée la formation et le renforcement des dispositions des militants à l'investissement dans une organisation libertaire ainsi que leur acquisition progressive d'une culture politique et d'un rapport au politique spécifiques. Ces différentes socialisations contribuent à faire s'éloigner, au sein de la nébuleuse libertaire, les militants anarchistes et les activistes de la gauche radicale et alternative, qui développent des conceptions différentes de ce que doivent être l'action politique et ses finalités. En dépit de leurs importantes similitudes, anarchistes et radicaux se retrouvent dans des identifications collectives divergentes qui rendent difficile leur collaboration. Leur engagement, largement affranchi des contraintes collectives, traduit un rapport au groupe qui est lui aussi clairement lié à une culture spécifique et distincte, qui influence tant la pérennité des investissements individuels que la durée de vie des collectifs.

AbstractOn March 12, 2020, all university campuses in Norway shut down due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Norwegian government then provided institutions of higher education with policy guidelines informing them that they were expected to develop alternative, digitalised forms of teaching to enable their students to continue and complete their studies without delay. This demand reduced the university to a hologram amid the expectation of an uninterrupted continuation of its educational programmes. This situation forced individual teachers to employ innovative thinking and led to institutional (re-)searches for new activity settings that could be established in the digitalised university. These individual and institutional (re-)searches anchored on the motive of continuation are the focus of this chapter. Even though digitalisation was reported by the Norwegian government as successful, we see it as tantamount to a reduction of learning and as ‘dissituated’ learning and thus argue for careful innovations extending the activity settings of professional socialisation.

En milieu scolaire ivoirien, la non-maîtrise du français engendre des difficultés dans l’enseignement-apprentissage. La formule qui résoudrait ce problème serait l’enseignement bilingue français – langues ivoiriennes. Le premier objectif de cet article est d’exposer les difficultés qui sont imputées à l’unique utilisation du français comme médium d’enseignement. Le second objectif de cette étude porte sur la mise en évidence des avantages de l’utilisation de la première langue de socialisation de l’élève dans ses apprentissages. L’analyse des discours et des représentations d’enseignants et d’élèves du système monolingue et du système bilingue rend compte que le français représente une épine dans les pratiques scolaires. Face à cet état de fait, l’enseignement bilingue fondé sur la langue maternelle apparaît comme étant la solution pour améliorer la qualité de l’éducation.

It is a common misconception that game-based learning is, by its very nature, engaging for the majority of learners. This is not necessarily the case, particularly for learners in Higher Education who may need to be persuaded of the value of learning games. For some learners, games may simply not be perceived as engaging–either in terms of an initial motivation to play or sustained participation. This paper describes the Alternate Reality Games for Orientation, Socialisation and Induction (ARGOSI) project, which experienced unexpectedly low motivation and participation. Despite extensive marketing, only a small fraction of potential students participated in the game and of those a far smaller number were highly engaged. Evidence from the project is presented and the reasons for the lack of engagement in the game created are considered. Finally the paper reflects on ways in which engagement with game-based learning might be encouraged.

Cette communication propose de montrer l’avancement des travaux de la recherche « Architecture et enseignements alternatifs : comment définir de nouveaux espaces d’apprentissage dans un contexte de crise épidémique ? » porté par une équipe de recherche pluridisciplinaire constituée autour de chercheurs du Laboratoire d’histoire de l'architecture contemporaine (LHAC) de l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture du Nancy (ENSA-Nancy), du SnT (Université du Luxembourg) et du LIEC (Université de Lorraine). Ce projet est lauréat du programme de recherche « Résilience Grand-Est », cofinancé par la Région Grand-Est et l’ANR. La crise sanitaire actuellement en cours, découlant de la diffusion à l’échelle mondiale de la maladie à coronavirus Covid-19, a engendré de profondes évolutions dans les rapports que chacun entretient avec l’autre et avec l’espace, en particulier dans le secteur de l’éducation. Au lendemain du premier déconfinement, de nombreux reportages photos dans les écoles faisaient état de la difficile réalité des nouvelles conditions d’accueil en milieu scolaire. Si la Covid-19 a bousculé de manière significative toutes les strates de société et mis à mal le fonctionnement de l’ensemble des institutions publiques, les infrastructures scolaires ont été particulièrement impactées. En effet, celles-ci sont devenues le lieu où les injonctions contradictoires se sont manifestées avec le plus de force : rester le lieu essentiel de la socialisation des enfants, tout en maintenant des mesures de distanciation physique. Les protocoles sanitaires ont ainsi obligé toute la communauté scolaire à s’adapter, dans un temps très court, à de nouvelles manières d’enseigner et d’apprendre, et plus largement de maintenir des liens de sociabilité. La recherche, dont nous proposons de faire un bilan d’étape au travers de cette communication, s’organise autour de trois axes de réflexion. Celle-ci se propose de voir comment, à partir d’une étude historique et d’une enquête de terrain sur la situation actuelle des établissements scolaires, il est possible d’imaginer des dispositifs spatiaux qui permettent de répondre conjointement aux enjeux conjoncturels de l’école – liés à la pandémie – et structurels – et notamment les enjeux sociaux, environnementaux, pédagogiques et fonctionnels. Cette communication se propose d’exposer les enjeux scientifiques et méthodologiques de cette enquête de terrain qui débutera en janvier 2021 dans le Grand-Est, et d’un dresser un premier bilan d’étape. Cette enquête a pour but d'étudier non seulement les impacts socio-spatiaux l’épidémie dans les milieux scolaires, mais aussi les mécanismes d’adaptation (pédagogiques et spatiaux) mis en œuvre par l’ensemble des acteurs de l’éducation. L'enquête vise ainsi à observer et analyser les changements représentationnels et pratiques, à la fois sur le versant pédagogique et sur celui des sociabilités, dans le champ de l’éducation en contexte sanitaire épidémique. Au-delà de la mise en évidence de la diversité des modalités d'adaptation, cet axe de recherche vise à mettre en évidence des leviers de résilience permettant de mieux faire face à ce type de crise.

The scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi coined the term “tacit knowledge” in 1958 to describe a type of unconscious, embodied and social knowledge that could not be explicitly taught through rules or rote-learning. He argued, instead, that some knowledge relied on practice, critique, socialisation and personal biography. In this sense, something like tacit knowledge has long played an important role in architectural education — where skill is acquired through (re)drawing, writing and model-making, reviewed by teachers and peers — even before Polanyi named it. Yet, for all the affinities between design education and tacit knowledge, Polanyi’s epistemology has rarely been directly addressed in architectural theory. This paper considers two exceptions in the writing and pedagogy of Melvin Charney and Colin Rowe in the 1970s. Both figures used Polanyi’s philosophy to propose alternatives to the “ultra” positions of Modernism. Charney argued that Quebecois vernacular architecture reflected a tacit, collective building culture that was inseparable from the embodied construction practices of craftspeople. This could not be made explicit in construction manuals or histories; students had to discover it through drawing and building themselves. Meanwhile, Rowe credited Polanyi’s Beyond Nihilism (1960) in the gestation of Collage City (1978, with Fred Koetter). Polanyi’s essay argued that individual freedom was important in making new discoveries, but that individuals still had a responsibility to go beyond themselves by conforming to collective norms and standards. This, too, found a parallel in Rowe and Koetter’s rejection of Modernist utopianism. At the same time, a close reading of these minor encounters reveals certain continuities and misalignments between Rowe and Charney’s interpretation and Polanyi’s own position as a prominent anti-Communist and contributor to early neoliberalism. Ultimately, this paper aims to clarify the role of tacit knowledge in the theory of these two architect/educators and, in doing so, simultaneously clarify the relationship between tacit knowledge and architectural pedagogy more broadly.