practice

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what does it mean to have a practice? does it mean, to do something regularly and skillfully?
does practice refer to an applied or ritual or active or directed or servile etc way of doing something?
is play the opposite of practice?
we can think of: artistic practice, yoga practice, meditation practice, a doctors practice, …
practice as situated process? or as general modality of working?
practice in relation to exercise: exercise as training, but also as the application of the knowledge/skills gained in a training…?
what does it take for something to be recognized as practice? when does a way of doing something become visible as a practice? how is this related to historical contexts, etc…
notion of praxis in relation to practice:
WIKIPEDIA, 19th feb 08, on praxis:
Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted or practiced. 
n Ancient Greek the word praxis (πρᾱξις) referred to activity engaged in by free men. Aristotle held that there were three basic activities of man: theoria, poiesis and praxis. There corresponded to these kinds of activity three types of knowledge: theoretical, to which the end goal was truth; poietical, to which the end goal was production; and practical, to which the end goal was action. Aristotle further divided practical knowledge into ethics, economics and politics. He also distinguished between eupraxia (good praxis) and dyspraxia (bad praxis, misfortune).
best practice practice understood as a field of operation within which one can objectively define what are the best ways of working – the best practices. what defines "best"? efficiency, depth, outcome, etc…?
WIKIPEDIA, 19th feb 08, "best practice":
Best Practice is a management idea which asserts that there is a technique, method, process, activity, incentive or reward that is more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method, process, etc. The idea is that with proper processes, checks, and testing, a desired outcome can be delivered with fewer problems and unforeseen complications. Best practices can also be defined as the most efficient (least amount of effort) and effective (best results) way of accomplishing a task, based on repeatable procedures that have proven themselves over time for large numbers of people.
In real-world application, Best Practice is a very useful concept. Despite the need to improve on processes as times change and things evolve, Best Practice is considered by some as a business buzzword used to describe the process of developing and following a standard way of doing things that multiple organizations can use for management, policy, and especially software systems.
…see also "Keywords" (Raymond Williams book) entry on "pragmatics" maybe 2008-02-19T13:25:06Z 28 true practice

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