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A first step for any knowledge investigator is to contrast scientific knowledge (broadly knowledge that is integral to pedagogic processes) with practical knowledge (broadly knowledge that allows us to go on in life), that is, to identify the constituents of each and the relations between them, and then to show how they are different or the same. For example, it has been suggested that scientific knowledge is nomological (i.e. the knowledge claim can be couched in a language of rules and invariant happenings), whereas everyday or practical knowledge is idiographic (i.e. the focus is on the meaning of contingent, unique and perhaps subjective phenomena).
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Scott, D. (2017). Learning and Academic Knowledge. In: Education Systems and Learners. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59884-4_5
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