Knowledge Construction as Movement via Boundary Constructions and Dialogue

Knowledge construction is described across both verbal and non-verbal interactions between group members observed within an ethnographic case study. Two levels of movements are first observed: one involving the dialogical movement of perspectives between Self and Other, and a second involving non-verbal interactions as a dynamic entanglement of objects and subjects across a process coined as boundary constructions. Both levels are simultaneously involved within the process of knowing. A less visible movement is also present in the form of a dialectical interplay between knowledge possession and knowledge emergence. For such movement to occur social engagement by group participant is vital.