In education, knowledge can be categorized into different types.

One of the most widely used frameworks

for categorizing educational goals is Bloom’s Taxonomy1. It consists of six major categories: Knowledge,
Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. The categories after Knowledge were
presented as “skills and abilities,” with the understanding that knowledge was the necessary precondition
for putting these skills and abilities into practice.
Another taxonomy of knowledge types for use in curriculum design suggests nine categories: empirical,
rational, conventional, conceptual, cognitive process skills, psychomotor, affective, narrative, and
received2.
Shulman (1987) described seven types of teacher knowledge: content knowledge, general pedagogical
knowledge, curriculum knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, knowledge of learners, knowledge of
educational contexts, and knowledge of educational aims, purposes, and values 3.
I hope this helps!
https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/
https://www.montana.edu/education/documents/carson/A-Taxonomy-of-Knowledge-Types.pdf
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-6165-0_204-2

Types and forms of knowledge in education include12:

 Explicit knowledge: knowledge that can be documented, transmitted, and learned by outsiders. It
is easy to share and understand.
 Implicit knowledge: knowledge that is gained through real-life experience and is more complex
than explicit knowledge.
 Tacit knowledge: knowledge that is personal, context-specific, and hard to articulate or transfer to
others.
 Declarative knowledge: knowledge that consists of facts, concepts, and principles that can be
stated or described.
 Procedural knowledge: knowledge that involves knowing how to perform a task or skill.
 A priori knowledge: knowledge that is derived from reasoning or logic, without relying on
empirical evidence or experience.
 A posteriori knowledge: knowledge that is based on empirical evidence or experience, rather than
reasoning or logic.
Learn more:
1. edapp.com
2. whatfix.com
Bloom’s Taxonomy | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University
 Knowledge “involves the recall of specifics and universals, the recall of methods and processes,
or the recall of a pattern, structure, or setting.”
 Comprehension “refers to a type of understanding or apprehension such that the individual
knows what is being communicated and can make use of the material or idea being
communicated without necessarily relating it to other material or seeing its fullest implications.”
 Application refers to the “use of abstractions in particular and concrete situations.”
 Analysis represents the “breakdown of a communication into its constituent elements or parts
such that the relative hierarchy of ideas is made clear and/or the relations between ideas
expressed are made explicit.”
 Synthesis involves the “putting together of elements and parts so as to form a whole.”
 Evaluation engenders “judgments about the value of material and methods for given purposes.”
The Revised Taxonomy (2001)

A group of cognitive psychologists, curriculum theorists and instructional researchers, and

testing and assessment specialists published in 2001 a revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy with the
title A Taxonomy for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. This title draws attention away from
the somewhat static notion of “educational objectives” (in Bloom’s original title) and points to a
more dynamic conception of classification.

The authors of the revised taxonomy underscore this dynamism, using verbs and gerunds to label
their categories and subcategories (rather than the nouns of the original taxonomy). These
“action words” describe the cognitive processes by which thinkers encounter and work with
knowledge:

Remember

 Recognizing
 Recalling

Understand

 Interpreting
 Exemplifying
 Classifying
 Summarizing
 Inferring
 Comparing
 Explaining

Apply

 Executing
  Implementing

Analyze

 Differentiating
 Organizing
 Attributing

Evaluate

 Checking
 Critiquing

Create

 Generating
 Planning
 Producing

In the revised taxonomy, knowledge is at the basis of these six cognitive processes, but its
authors created a separate taxonomy of the types of knowledge used in cognition:

 Factual Knowledge
o Knowledge of terminology
o Knowledge of specific details and elements
 Conceptual Knowledge
o Knowledge of classifications and categories
o Knowledge of principles and generalizations
o Knowledge of theories, models, and structures
 Procedural Knowledge
o Knowledge of subject-specific skills and algorithms
o Knowledge of subject-specific techniques and methods
o Knowledge of criteria for determining when to use appropriate procedures
  Metacognitive Knowledge
o Strategic Knowledge
o Knowledge about cognitive tasks, including appropriate contextual and
conditional knowledge
o Self-knowledge

Mary Forehand from the University of Georgia provides a guide to the revised version giving a
brief summary of the revised taxonomy and a helpful table of the six cognitive processes and
four types of knowledge.