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Academics who teach at university are there because they are subject experts. Not only do they know many things about a given discipline, but their knowledge is also well-organised in a way that allows them to be active members of an academic community that develops the field of knowledge as well as teaches it. As summarised by Goldsmith et al.

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Kinchin, I.M. (2016). The Framework. In: Visualising Powerful Knowledge to Develop the Expert Student. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-627-9_1

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