What is it about?
Teachers need to understand their own beliefs about what knowledge is and how they acquire knowledge. Beliefs about what knowledge is and how we acquire knowledge are called epistemic beliefs.
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Why is it important?
Because our knowledge arises from the choices that we make individually to engage or not in effortful thinking, we are each responsible for what we know and do not know. When teachers understand their own epistemic beliefs, they can use this knowledge to enable learners to learn to think critically and to understand the very important role that learners have in their own learning.
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There is thus an urgency for teachers' epistemic cognition to be an explicit focus in teacher education thereby underlining that sophisticated epistemic thinking is a necessary attribute of being a teacher
Professor Effie Maclellan
University of Strathclyde
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This page is a summary of: Updating understandings of ‘teaching’: taking account of learners' and teachers' beliefs, Teaching in Higher Education, October 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2014.966238.
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