Epistemics and Education

Gregory J. Kelly

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Abstract

By engaging in the epistemic practices of a disciplinary area, students are able to build their capacity for lear­ning and expand their repertoire for reasoning. These epistemic practices are intrinsic to knowledge-producing communities and need to be examined from a sociocultural perspective. In this paper, I describe epistemic practices and the related topics of epistemic and ontological cognition and epistemic tools. I consider the epistemological commitments of the communities constructing knowledge and the spheres of application for epistemics in education. These epistemic domains of education are each illustrated with examples from cur­riculum design. The value and limitations of the perspective are discussed. In a post-script, I answer common questions about the uses of epistemic practices in education.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)135-152
Number of pages18
JournalEducation et Didactique
Volume18
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - May 20 2024

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Education
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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