On the Explicit and Tacit Dimensions of Reading— From the Concept of Michael Polanyi's "Personal Knowledge"

• Main Authors: Chang Hsiao Li, 張曉黎
• Other Authors: 賀瑞麟
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16603386929361862089

碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 社會發展學系碩士班 === 95 === The dissertation is intended to extend to the reading from the gist of Michael Polanyi's doctrine “personal knowledge”, including the explicit knowledge and the tacit knowledge, focal awareness and subsidiary awareness, from-to structure, reversibility and irreversibility. Reading is an affair of personal participation. Reading contains the explicit and tacit dimension. When we read a text, we “see” the words and symbols on the explicit level, but we read and comprehend the meaning conveyed by them on the tacit level. Human being builds up their tacit powers through three kinds of learning—trick learning, sign-learning and latent learning. It is fully helpful to comprehend and understand the text with our inarticulate ability of reading as the articulate ability is enriched simultaneously. Whenever we perform an art or a skill, it is necessarily accompanied with two awareness—focal awareness and subsidiary awareness. We look at the words —this is subsidiary awareness, and we understand the meaning of the words—this is focal awareness. Moreover, we focus not only on the meaning of the words and the section, but also on the conception of the whole text. It is from-to relation that we read “from” words “to” understand the meaning. Finally, the process of reversibility or irreversibility is necessarily included in our reading, understanding or comprehension. We obtain the explicit knowledge and the tacit knowledge simultaneously by reading. The articulate powers and inarticulate powers are also reinforced by reading. Therefore, human mind would become healthy and strong by continuous reading.