Editing Craft (section)

== Nature of craft skill ==
The nature of craft skill and the process of its development are continually debated by philosophers, [[anthropologist]]s, and [[cognitive scientist]]s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Martin |first=Tom |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237490664 |title=Craft learning as perceptual transformation: getting 'the feel' in the wooden boat workshop |year=2021 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-3-030-64283-9 |chapter=2: Enduring Questions in Craft Research|oclc=1237490664 }}</ref> Some scholars note that craft skill is marked by particular ways of experiencing tools and materials, whether by allowing tools to recede from focal awareness,<ref>{{Cite book |last=O'Connor |first=Erin |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/174255786 |title=Practicing culture |year=2007 |publisher=Routledge |editor-first1=Craig J. |editor-last1=Calhoun|editor-first2=Richard |editor-last2=Sennett |isbn=978-0-203-94495-0 |location=London |chapter=Hot glass: The calorific imagination of practice in glassblowing|oclc=174255786|pages=57–81 }}</ref> perceiving tools and materials in terms of their practical interrelationships,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Martin |first=Tom |date=2020-12-21 |title=Relational Perception and 'the feel' for Tools in the Wooden Boat Workshop |url=https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/pandpr/index.php/pandpr/article/view/29441|journal=Phenomenology & Practice |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=5–23 |doi=10.29173/pandpr29441 |s2cid=234377859 |issn=1913-4711|doi-access=free }}</ref> or seeing aspects of work that are invisible to the untrained observer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grasseni |first=Cristina |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1013888029 |title=The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology |date=2018 |editor-first1=Hilary |editor-last1=Callan|editor-first2=Simon|editor-last2=Coleman |isbn=978-1-118-92439-6 |location=Hoboken, N.J. |chapter=Skilled Vision |oclc=1013888029}}</ref> Other scholars working on craft skill focus on observational learning and mimicry, exploring how learners visually parse the movements of experts.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marchand |first=Trevor H.J. |year=2010 |title=Embodied cognition and communication: studies with British fine woodworkers |url=https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2010.01612.x |journal=Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute |volume=16 |pages=S100–S120 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-9655.2010.01612.x |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Certain researchers even de-emphasize the role of the individual craftsperson, noting the collective nature of craft understanding<ref>{{Cite book |first1=Jean|last1=Lave|first2=Etienne|last2=Wenger|title=Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation |date=1991-09-27 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/situated-learning/6915ABD21C8E4619F750A4D4ACA616CD?chapterId=CBO9780511815355A009#contents |pages=27–44 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/cbo9780511815355.003 |isbn=9780521413084 |access-date=2023-01-12}}</ref> or emphasizing the role of materials as collaborators in the process of production.<ref>{{multiref2
|1={{Cite book |last=Ingold |first=Tim |chapter=Walking the Plank: Meditations on a Process of Skill |date=2006 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781403983053_6 |title=Defining Technological Literacy |pages=65–80 |place=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |doi=10.1057/9781403983053_6 |isbn=978-1-349-53206-3 |access-date=2023-01-12|editor-first=John R.|editor-last=Dakers}}
|2={{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/317883316 |title=Material agency: towards a non-anthropocentric approach |date=2008 |publisher=Springer |first1=Carl|last1= Knappett|first2= Lambros|last2= Malafouris |isbn=978-0-387-74711-8 |location=Berlin |oclc=317883316}}
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