Notice about the distinction made between "Connaissance" and "Savoir"
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The distinction [between "connaissance" and "savoir"] is made in some theorisation of the didactics of mathematics, specially the theory of situations (Brousseau, 1998) and my approach in the study of the transposition-of-knowledge phenomena (Conne, 1992), and that is useful to present it here. As we have seen, there is a problem with the translation of these theoretical terms into English. As a first approximation, I use to translate the French word "connaissance" by the English "knowing" and the French word "savoir" by the English "knowledge". You have to take these terms as theoretical terms, so it is not very important to spend a lot of time discussing word choice. The fact that knowledge is a noun will indicate that it is something identified and that it takes its place among other types of knowledge. In the other hand, knowing suggests two things: a subject who is actually in certain process, just knowing something.
Knowledge has a social and instituted character insofar as "to know" provides to the knowing subject a social distinction toward some institution where that knowledge has some importance. It is clear that an individual's knowing activity is engaged in some social situation, so one can say that knowledge will provide references and distinctions for this activity.
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