ABSTRACT
This chapter explains important characteristics of human capacities, developed through experience and commonly called expertise. It is structured as follows. It examines concepts of expertise followed by an outline of how different kinds of knowing can be differentiated. The chapter also examines the range of different kinds of meaning and their interrelationships. It then examines these ideas of expertise as facility with meaning in relation to various psychological concepts of expertise. The chapter brings the various ideas advanced together in a summary of the nature of expertise. It provides a basis for addressing economic and vocational education challenges and for exploring curriculum development and educational delivery implications for contemporary vocational education. In relation to the idea of expertise as facility with meaning, the concept of schemas is a theoretical construct about how meanings and their interconnections are represented in the mind.
