Title: ”Kunskap i 3D” – techne, episteme och fronesis, presenterat som samspelande dimensioner
Abstract: This article introduces a three-dimensional representation or model as a basis for discussing how competence is built. The dimensions are Aristoteles’ three forms of knowledge, episteme, techne and phronesis. The representation tries to visualize Aristoteles knowledge forms as three equal dimensions, that are all necessary and they influence one another on the path to greater competence. The authors try to impose the idea that phronesis is the drive that urges a learning process. The model is described with the topic of language acquisition. It is thereafter used to discuss the content of pedagogy in the teacher education and exemplified with how students move from beginners to more self-reliant educators. This discussion is also founded on Aristoteles concept of “hexis” (habit) and the authors thoroughly discuss the blessings and the curses of habits of the three dimensions of episteme, techne and phronesis. It is not habit as mechanical routines, but as a confident base, which makes teachers openminded and prepared to innovate their practices. Habits can increase a person’s sensibility for wanting change as well as increase resistance to it. If you incorporate a reflecting approach, habit becomes a state of mind and the teacher students can go from being passive recipients to active creators of their teacher identity.