• The types of knowledge I’ve been working with on CE learning so far.

To answer this question, I need to figure out there are how many types of knowledge? Google gives the answer:

1. Explicit Knowledge: Easily articulated and shared, such as manuals, documents, and procedures.
2. Implicit Knowledge: This is knowledge we use without being consciously aware of it, often overlapping with tacit knowledge.
3. Tacit Knowledge: Personal and context-specific, harder to formalize, like experiences and insights.
4. Procedural Knowledge: Knowing how to do something, such as skills and processes.
5. Declarative Knowledge: Knowing facts and information, often about what is true or false.
6. Contextual Knowledge: Understanding the context in which information is used.
7. A Priori Knowledge: Knowledge that is independent of experience, like mathematical truths.
8. A Posteriori Knowledge: Knowledge that is dependent on experience or empirical evidence.
9. Institutional Knowledge: Knowledge specific to an organization, including its processes, culture, and history.
10. Domain Expertise: Deep understanding and skills specific to a particular field or industry.

https://whatfix.com/blog/types-of-knowledge/#:~:text=Your%20entire%20organization%20is%20built,your%20products%20and%20services%2C%20etc.

I have been working with below knowledge:

1-explicit knowledge, for example how to achieve the CE, it gives us a pathway, from refuse to reuse to recycle to recovery, etc. 

2/3-Implicit/tacit Knowledge, for example, we use our insight to dream big. It passed on through observation, practice, and shared experiences.

4-Procedural Knowledge, such as LCA for calculate a product’s carbon emission through a series of steps or actions.

5-Declarative Knowledge, all called “know-what,” is understanding factual information, concepts, and truths. We learned the facts that CE helps to reduce CO2 emissions and preserve natural resources.

7-A Priori Knowledge, when I learned Python, knowledge is foundational in mathematics.

Also, according to Zweirs et al. (2020), we have working on all the categories she mentioned: the system knowledge; target knowledge; transformation knowledge.

• Do we have to look to different sources to find different types of knowledge?

Yes. We have to do that. By doing so, we can firstly find more reliable knowledge we need, then we can develop our own procedure or institutional knowledge. Secondly, CE needs transdisciplinary knowledge, like engineering, economy… they may focus on different types of knowledge,

• (Linking to this week’s KIPP Lecture) what might those sources of that knowledge be?

The KIPP lecture talked about finding and using literature and data. they are more like system knowledge&procedural knowledge, coming from the experience. Teachers are veteran  on finding and using literature and data so they summarized and generalized based on experience.

• ( a question to mull over the next year) what sort of knowledge do you want to generate with your KIPP project?

I want to intergrate knowledge as much as possible to deal with the problem that I bring up and want to solve in the project.

SEM1 W4 What knowledge do we need for Circular Economy Transformation? / Yumeng Dong / Circular Economy: KIPP and Futures Project by is licensed under a