In their article, “Tacit Knowledge Cultivation as an Essential Component of Developing Experts,” LisaRe Brooks Babin and Alice J. (Sena) Garven argue that tacit knowledge—the intuitive, experience-based understanding—is crucial for developing experts, even more so than readily available explicit knowledge (like facts from a book). They use the example of military marksmanship, where true skill comes from practice and feedback, not just reading manuals.
Given today’s complex environments, the military needs to better cultivate this unspoken knowledge for agility and effective responses. The authors propose that we should measure both explicit and tacit knowledge and suggest that higher-level learning inherently involves more tacit understanding. Their work emphasizes that true expertise isn’t just about knowing facts; it’s about developing an intuitive “feel” through experience.
You can read the full article here: https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Journal-of-Military-Learning/Journal-of-Military-Learning-Archives/JML-Apr-2019/Babin-Garvin-Tacit-Knowledge/
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