Epistemic Fluency and Professional Education
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- Synopsis
- Thisbook, by combing sociocultural, material, cognitive and embodied perspectives ofhuman knowing, offers a new and powerful conceptualisation of professional epistemicfluency - a capacity that underpins professional knowledgeable action andinnovation. Using results from empirical studies it sheds light on practicalways in which the development of epistemic fluency can be recognised andsupported - in higher education and in the transition to work. Peoplewho are flexible in respect to different ways of knowing can be said to possessepistemic fluency -they are adept to combine different kinds of specialised and context-dependentknowledge and enact their knowing in solving problems encountered in the world. Whatdoes it take to be a productive member of a multidisciplinary team working on acomplex problem? What enables a person to integrate different types and fieldsof knowledge, indeed different ways of knowing, in order to make somewell-founded decisions and take actions in the world? What personal knowledgeresources are entailed in analysing a problem and describing an innovativesolution, such that the innovation can be shared in an organization orprofessional community? How do people get better at these things; and how canteachers in higher education help students develop these valued capacities? Theanswers to these questions are central to a thorough understanding of what itmeans to become an effective knowledge worker and resourceful professional.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9789400743694
- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht
- Date of Addition:
- 03/31/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Philosophy
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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