Epistemic Insight Tutors in Higher Education

The Epistemic Insight Initiative is a research and curriculum innovation project that’s being carried out in teacher education and higher education institutions. This document contains profiles of tutors at Canterbury Christ Church University who are teaching epistemic insight through their modules and workshops. Epistemic insight means ‘knowledge about knowledge’, and particularly knowledge about disciplines and how they interact. Teaching epistemic insight goes hand in hand with teaching a knowledge-rich, broad and balanced curriculum. The Epistemic Insight initiative provides opportunities for: • Tutors and trainee teachers to work collaboratively to co-create pedagogies fordeveloping pupils’ epistemic insight and agency in schools. • Creating Knowledge Labs in higher education, designed to build students’ epistemic insight through projects that engage with real world opportunities and problems. This facilitates links between different disciplinary knowledge domains to help students become innovative and critical epistemic agents, equipped to co-create holistic solutions to 21st Century challenges. To maximise the visibility and inclusivity of EI, the tools and language of epistemic insight are written into the module descriptions and assessments. Posters are displayed around lecture theatres and hand-outs are shared in and between sessions. Trainee teachers and higher education students are encouraged to become active researchers within both their academic studies and teaching practice. This online portal outlines current academic involvement and the activities, outcomes and innovations produced for the project