You mean Practice is a research method!

Know-how, Know-what, Know-that

 

To structure the term ‘praxis’, the ‘doing-knowing’, Nelson places learning into three separate areas for the practice based methodology. 

 

Know-how is used by Nelson to describe procedural knowledge or learning through doing.

 

Know-what is Nelson's description for the reflection process.

 

Know-that is what is drawn from the reading, the reading that takes place in a research project.

 

In using Nelson's illustration to unpack the process used in PaR explains this continual research activity. Here it shows visually that the praxis must be at the centre of the process. It was this retaining the practice at the centre of the research that did not happen in my initial research, and is the change that I must make to revise my work.