What types of knowledge does cooperative inquiry create?
Cooperative inquiry involves at least four different kinds of ways of knowing. This is referred to as an “extended epistemology,” since it reaches beyond the primary theoretical knowledge of academia. The four ways of knowing are outlined below: • Experiential knowing – Knowing that emerges through direct face-to-face encounter with person, place or thing; it is knowing through empathy and resonance, and is almost impossible to put into words. • Presentational knowing – Knowing that emerges from experiential knowing, and provides the first form of expression by drawing on expressive forms of imagery through story, drawing, sculpture, movement, dance and etc. • Propositional knowing – Knowing that is expressed through ideas and theories, expressed in informative statements. • ractical knowing – Knowing about ‘how to’ that is expressed in a skill or competence. In cooperative inquiry, knowing will be more valid if these four ways of knowing are congruent with each other (i.e., knowing th
