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The Expert Student

The Need to Manipulate Knowledge

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The concept of the ‘expert student’ has been considered for some time (e.g. Sternberg, 1998, 2003). Here I am considering the expert student in the context of knowledge creation and the ways in which learning approaches can utilize disciplinary knowledge structures in order to develop authentic understanding and practice.

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Kinchin, I.M. (2016). The Expert Student. In: Visualising Powerful Knowledge to Develop the Expert Student. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-627-9_5

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