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Tillson, John Brendan (2017) When to teach for belief : a tempered defence of the epistemic criterion. Educational Theory, 67 (2). pp. 173-191. doi:10.1111/edth.12241 ISSN 0013-2004.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1111/edth.12241
Abstract
Michael Hand has defended the “epistemic criterion” for “directive and nondirective teaching” in his 2008 Educational Theory article, “What Should We Teach as Controversial? A Defense of the Epistemic Criterion,” as well as subsequent pieces. Here, John Tillson defends use of the epistemic criterion in the case of what he calls “momentous propositions,” but he rejects two of Hand's key arguments in support of the criterion. This rethinking comes in light of important contributions to the debate made by Bryan Warnick and D. Spencer Smith and by Maughn Rollins Gregory, also published in this journal. Tillson begins the article with an elucidation of the directive/nondirective distinction, and then discusses some limitations of defining the distinction in terms of intention. Next, he draws attention to the problems with the “soft-directive teaching” method that Warnick and Smith advocate. Finally, Tillson provides an additional argument in favor of the epistemic criterion, an argument also grounded in work by Hand, which places emphasis on imparting knowledge alongside cultivating rationality among our educational aims.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Education -- Philosophy, Epistemics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Educational Theory | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0013-2004 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 67 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 173-191 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/edth.12241 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 December 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 February 2019 | ||||||||
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