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Tacit Expertise

其他書名	How the NATO Defense College Nurtures an International Hub of Security Knowledge Through Education
出版	NATO Defense College, Research Division, 2016
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rkG9swEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"The NDC [NATO Defense College] educational pillar is responsible for the strategic training of a large number of military and civilian officials in charge of security or security related tasks within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), national capacities of Allied countries, and among Partner countries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In this way the NDC contributes to NATO's cohesion and effectiveness, and assists in defusing tensions by reaching out to the conflict-ridden strategic environment of NATO ... This paper builds on a two-year participant observation study of the NDC, focused on the expertise and knowledge of the College ... The perspective of my research is that expertise constitutes a lens through which actors see the world. Following from this, expertise forms the basis of how actors act. The initial research questions, therefore, were: 1) What kinds of knowledge are deemed important in the activities of the College? 2) What types of expertise underpin its activities? Based on recent discussions in the academic debate on the sociology of expertise, the project complemented these questions with a third: To what extent was the expertise and knowledge valued at NDC primarily based on complex academic knowledge, or on more practical knowledge and/or experience acquired in the field? In this paper I report the findings of my research and point to a central feature of the College's activities which has not been properly appreciated: its historical role in providing a large group of practitioners and potential security leaders with a prism through which to view and practice security, and the possibility of making this role more active in the future. Through education, the NDC has placed itself at the centre of an international hub of security knowledge by creating an expert community of practice ... In this paper, I describe current academic practices at the NDC, specifically those tied to running the Senior Course. I then argue for down-playing the theoretical, academic orientation of the College in order to safeguard the specific kind of NDC expertise that NATO needs. I conclude with a recommendation for the future direction of the College, and a warning that expertise can turn into tunnel vision if not nurtured cautiously"--Pages 1-2.