The Epistemic Dimension of Competence in the Social Sciences.

Autor/inn/en	Maggioni, Liliana; Fox, Emily; Alexander, Patricia A.
Titel	The Epistemic Dimension of Competence in the Social Sciences.
Quelle	In: Journal of social science education, 9 (2010) 4, S. 15-23Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1439-6246; 1618-5293; 1628-5293
DOI	10.4119/UNIBI/jsse-v9-i4-1141
Schlagwörter	Kompetenz; Empirische Untersuchung; Kompetenzerwerb; Geschichtsunterricht; USA; Fachdidaktik; Kompetenz; Fachdidaktik; Geschichtsunterricht; Historisches Denken; Sozialwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; USA
Abstract	To investigate competence in the social sciences, the authors propose to define competence as a particular configuration of the learner's cognition, strategic repertoire, motivation, and orientation toward knowing. Specifically, they focus on epistemic beliefs and on the changes that a view of knowing as a complex, effortful, generative, evidence-seeking, and reflective enterprise entails. In this context, the authors discuss how familiarity with the processes used to justify knowledge claims within specific disciplinary communities can provide useful tools to develop the kind of adaptive and consistent thinking that characterize competence in different domains and how this focus may aid the identification of characteristics common across domains. They use their empirical exploration of adolescents' development of competence in the domain of history to illustrate the implications of this theoretical framework, to highlight the relations between domain-specific epistemic beliefs and kind of understanding that students built as a result of reading multiple texts, and to suggest what pedagogical practices may have influenced students' orientations toward knowing in these three history classes (Original übernommen Verlag).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main (extern)
Update	2011/3