With funding from ECHO, the toolkit has been developed drawing on the extensive practical and technical knowledge of FAO's experts in its decentralized offices and headquarters, and taking advantage of the Organization's ability to collaborate with partners across a wide range of sectors.
The steady capital accumulation of the preceding centuries was invested in the practical application of technical knowledge during the Industrial Revolution.
The design patterns developed in this study show how practical, clinical, organizational, and technical knowledge about support of children with a chronic disease can be shared between patients, relatives, and caregivers using a Web 2.0 system compliant with the WHA eHealth resolution.
My own stab at an answer would be that universities are places where young people acquire two sorts of knowledge, what the philosopher Michael Oakeshott called technical knowledge and practical knowledge.
Beyond sharing the deeper understanding of daily life, professional technical knowledge and practical experience of the person in scene, which includes learning from situations experienced by other patients, are shared as testimonies of professional expertise.
Nominees are scrupulously evaluated according to their technical knowledge, their ability at practical demonstrations, and how buzzily they conduct themselves with mystery shoppers.
If Nelson is right, then universities in the future will spend much less time transmitting technical knowledge and much more time transmitting practical knowledge.
Geothermal energy is buried miles deep underground and is, for all practical purposes, impossible to find without a fair amount of technical knowledge, testing and so forth.
The program is structured for fellows to achieve appropriate cognitive and technical knowledge, professional as well as humanistic attitudes and practical knowledge in the field of Sleep Medicine to allow them to function as highly competent sub-specialists in the field.
So far, the discussion is mostly about technical knowledge, but the future of the universities is in practical knowledge.
