HCD.Reference:6.1 - Learning a practice whose usable regularities exceed its rules

A learner can state a grammatical rule yet miss a familiar phrase in conversation; copy a dance sequence yet fail to respond to a new partner; complete a work procedure yet miss the exception that calls for help. Conversely, a person can make a sound distinction or perform a coordinated action before being able to explain it. Begin from the contribution the receiving practice needs. A verbal account, recognition, fluent execution, adaptation and participation can be related targets without being interchangeable observations.

HCD.5:4.2.1 explains how to combine explanation, examples, exposure, practice, feedback and participation from that target. HCD.6.1:4.2.2 develops learning across a family of examples when a single contrast or explicit rule is insufficient. HCD.6 reconnects focused work to simultaneous coordination; HCD.9 makes feedback usable through the response the target actually requires. HCD.Application:10 follows these connections through language, movement, ordinary workplace learning and a team of engineers.

A cultural practice supplies uses, exemplars, conventions and disputed or changing judgements as well as explicit rules. Learning can therefore begin from competent demonstrations and usable comparisons without waiting for a complete verbal theory. Establish which practice and conditions those examples represent. A conventional variant in one community is not automatically an error in another. Developing the learner’s participation differs from changing the practice’s repertoire or recognition arrangements; MDPE supplies that latter music-and-dance question.

Learning inside work adds another connection. A real task must give the person an attainable contribution, help at the point of need and a later opportunity to use the result. HCD.15 develops that arrangement. HCD.22 distinguishes learning through interaction from learning to perform one’s contribution in joint work; OCE addresses a needed change to the organization’s assignments, access or contribution relations. A useful joint result may require all three without making every participant learn every profession.