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In ‘Rethinking the Cognitive Turn’, May claimed that ‘meaning cannot be found in the intracranial darkness between our ears’ and that we will find ourselves groping down a blind alley if we think that it can. This claim is an attempt to resist a prevalent picture, or conceptualisation of meaning, in which ‘meaning’ is understood as relating to something fundamentally inner, private or subjective. In this chapter May attempts to kill two metaphorical birds with one stone: on the one hand, he further develops his critique from the last chapter to challenge this prevalent picture. On the other hand, he attempts to build a positive account of intelligent performance through a critical engagement with the literature on PaR. Doing so will provide a solid foundation from which we can understand the ‘doing-thinking’ that Robin Nelson suggests is fundamental to PaR.
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May, S. (2015). Rethinking Practice as Research. In: Rethinking Practice as Research and the Cognitive Turn. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137522733_3
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