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VIRTUAL EVENT: Competence, skills, and epistemic injustice
16 June 2021, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
In this webinar, Dr Marabini and Dr Moretti (University of Aberdeen) explore the epistemic injustices of 'minimal instruction theory'.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Alison Brady
According to the knowledge-based approach, education is defined by the knowledge that learners should acquire.
This approach distinguishes between the metaphysical level of knowledge – which describes the knowledge of an ideal thinker who perfectly masters the disciplinary framework – and the epistemological level of knowledge – which describes the knowledge of real individuals who gradually learn the framework in time.
In this talk, Dr Marabini and Dr Moretti will contend that keeping these levels of knowledge separate helps prevent a form of epistemic injustice in education that depends on their confusion, and that the knowledge-based approach outperforms the skill-based approach because only the former but not the latter does this.
PESGB seminar series
The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) is a learned society that promotes the study, teaching and application of philosophy of education. Its London Branch hosts seminars every Wednesday in conjunction with Philosophy at the Institute of Education.
These seminars are led by national and international scholars in the field, covering a wide range of issues of educational and philosophical concern. All are welcome to attend.
Links
- Tweet with #philofed
- Philosophy at the Institute of Education
- Department of Education, Practice and Society
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About the Speakers
Alessia Marabini (PhD, Bologna)
High school teacher and member of the Centre for Knowledge and Society, the University of Aberdeen
Alessia's research areas are epistemology and philosophy of education. In epistemology of education, she has articles in the Journal of Philosophy of Education and the Italian monograph, Epistemology of Education: Critical Thinking, Ethics and Epistemic Injustice (Aracne, 2020).
Luca Moretti (PhD, King's College London)
Reader of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen
Luca's research areas include epistemology, philosophy of education, and philosophical logic. He has two monographs: Seemings and Epistemic Justification (Springer, 2020) and Appearance and Explanation (OUP, forthcoming) co-authored by Kevin McCain.