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van Dijk, Esther E.; Geertsema, Johan; van der Schaaf, Marieke F.; van Tartwijk, Jan; Kluijtmans, Manon – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Disciplinary knowledge lies at the heart of academic work. However, connecting academics' disciplinary knowledge to their professional development as teachers has been a longstanding challenge for (research-intensive) universities. This is reflected in criticism of the practices that aim to support the professional development of university…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Faculty Development, College Faculty, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Hickey, Andrew; Forbes, Melissa – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This paper examines the function of 'expertise' in mediating the student-supervisor relationship in Higher Degree Research (HDR). Prevailing conceptualisations of expertise generally translate as "disciplinary acumen" and reference the supervisor's specialist disciplinary and methodological knowledge. Beyond establishing the disciplinary…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Research, Supervision, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
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Chen, Ouhao; Kalyuga, Slava – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2020
Problem solving followed by explicit instruction, as suggested by productive failure and several other instructional theories, indicates long-term learning benefits, whereas explicit instruction followed by problem solving has been consistently demonstrated as superior within the framework of cognitive load theory. However, the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Instructional Effectiveness
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Swartwood, Jason – Journal of Moral Education, 2020
Wisdom, long a topic of interest to moral philosophers, is increasingly the focus of social science research. Philosophers have historically been concerned to develop a rationally defensible account of the nature of wisdom and its role in the moral life, often inspired in various ways by virtue theoretical accounts of practical wisdom…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Individual Characteristics, Philosophy, Ethics
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Siew, Cynthia S. Q. – Education Sciences, 2020
A fundamental goal of education is to inspire and instill deep, meaningful, and long-lasting conceptual change within the knowledge landscapes of students. This commentary posits that the tools of network science could be useful in helping educators achieve this goal in two ways. First, methods from cognitive psychology and network science could…
Descriptors: Expertise, Network Analysis, Cognitive Psychology, Concept Formation
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Grundmann, Reiner – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2017
This paper puts forward a theoretical framework for the analysis of expertise and experts in contemporary societies. It argues that while prevailing approaches have come to see expertise in various forms and functions, they tend to neglect the broader historical and societal context, and importantly the relational aspect of expertise. This will be…
Descriptors: Expertise, Knowledge Level, Decision Making, Social Environment
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Daly-Lesch, Anne – Texas Education Review, 2019
Literacy is a powerful tool to engage students in learning about the social, cultural, political, and natural worlds around them. This is especially true within the discipline of science where students use reading and writing to engage in scientific inquiry. In the era of accountability reform, however, students spend more time acquiring reading…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Critical Theory, Critical Literacy, Inquiry
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Turner, Marianne; Windle, Joel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
This article explores the kinds of teacher knowledge promoted in TESOL-related curriculum standards in five jurisdictions (Australia and England at the national level, New York City and New York State in the United States, and Ontario, Canada, at the subnational level). Such documents are increasingly important in defining, and potentially…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, English Teachers
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Milton, Damian E. M. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
The field of autism studies is a highly disputed territory within which competing contradictory discourses abound. In this field, it is the voices and claims of autistic people regarding their own expertise in knowledge production concerning autism that is most recent in the debate, and traditionally the least attended to. In this article, I…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Knowledge Level, Expertise
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Richey, J. Elizabeth; Nokes-Malach, Timothy J. – Educational Psychology Review, 2015
Robust knowledge serves as a common instructional target in academic settings. Past research identifying characteristics of experts' knowledge across many domains can help clarify the features of robust knowledge as well as ways of assessing it. We review the expertise literature and identify three key features of robust knowledge (deep,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Knowledge Level, Expertise
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Baggaley, Jon – Distance Education, 2016
This commentary discusses reasons that lead scholars to feel entitled to make judgements in areas where they have little or no expertise. Three current reports about the future of online learning are considered, issued by the Global Learning Council, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Gates Foundation. Two of these publications contain…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Expertise
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Scheeler, Mary Catherine; Budin, Shannon; Markelz, Andy – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2016
It is paramount that teacher preparation programs continually strive toward the mission of preparing effective special educators. Through coursework and fieldwork, graduates must be well-informed professionals capable of improving student outcomes by understanding, selecting, and engaging in evidence-based practice (EBP). Evidence suggesting…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Evidence Based Practice, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Competencies
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Faye Halpern – College Composition and Communication, 2015
We in composition studies have countered the suspicion that what we do is "simplistic in method and impoverished in content" by insisting on our own disciplinary expertise, an insistence that has gained us administrative support and, arguably, better working conditions. Yet this article explores a problem that arose for the author as a…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Intellectual Disciplines, Expertise, Interprofessional Relationship
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Winch, Christopher – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2013
Three kinds of knowledge usually recognised by epistemologists are identified and their relevance for curriculum design is discussed. These are: propositional knowledge, know-how and knowledge by acquaintance. The inferential nature of propositional knowledge is argued for and it is suggested that propositional knowledge in fact presupposes the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Epistemology, Familiarity, Knowledge Level
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Nerland, Monika; Jensen, Karen – Journal of Education and Work, 2012
Professional practice is embedded in complex dynamics of knowledge that are present within, but reach beyond, local work. Knowledge is generated from a manifold of sources, and further developed and circulated in professional communities as practitioners are confronted with non-routine problems. Drawing on the work of Karin Knorr Cetina and her…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Personnel, Knowledge Level, Nurses
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