Table Of ContentHandbook of Epistemic Cognition
The Handbook of Epistemic Cognition brings together leading work from across
d isciplines to provide a comprehensive overview of an increasingly important t opic:
how people acquire, construct, understand, justify, change, and use knowledge in
formal and i nformal contexts. Research into inquiry, understanding, and discovery
within a cademic disciplines has progressed from general models of conceptual change
to a focus upon the learning trajectories that lead to expert-like conceptualizations,
skills, and performance. Outside of academic domains, issues of who and what to be-
lieve, and how to integrate multiple sources of information into coherent and useful
k nowledge, have arisen as primary challenges of the twenty-frst century.
In six sections, scholars write within and across felds to focus on and advance the role
of epistemic cognition in education. With special attention to how researchers across
disciplines can communicate and collaborate more effectively, this book will be an
invaluable resource for anyone interested in the future of knowledge and knowing.
Jeffrey A. Greene is an associate professor in the Learning Sciences and Psychological
Studies program in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
William A. Sandoval is a professor in the division of Urban Schooling at the UCLA
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.
Ivar Bråten is a professor of Educational Psychology at the Faculty of Educational
S ciences at the University of Oslo, Norway.
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Handbook of Epistemic Cognition
Edited by
Jeffrey A. Greene, William A. Sandoval, and
Ivar Bråten
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Dedication
• Jeffrey A. Greene dedicates his work on this volume to his wife, Mira Brancu,
and their children, Jacob and Avery. The many hours of work necessary
to produce this volume depended upon their understanding, and more
importantly, their love and support.
• William A. Sandoval dedicates his work on this volume to the teachers and
children at the UCLA lab school from whom he has learned so much about
epistemic cognition. He is grateful to the Learning Technologies Research
Group at UCLA for their openness and criticism, especially Suna Ryu, Sihan
Xiao, Jarod Kawasaki, Jackie Wong, David DeLiema, and Noel Enyedy.
Special thanks to Rick Duschl for years of support in all matters epistemic.
• Ivar Bråten dedicates his work on this volume to his dear partner, Ann
Kristin Heller, and his son Jørgen Bråten, the two persons in the world that
occupy his mind most when he is not thinking of research. Additionally,
he wants to thank his collaborators in the TextDIM research group at the
University of Oslo for their continuing loyalty and support.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Epistemic Cognition 1
JEFFREY A. GREENE, WILLIAM A. SANDOvAL, AND IvAR BRåTEN
Section I PSyCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIvES ON
EPISTEMIC COGNITION 17
Chapter 2 Epistemic Cognition as a Psychological Construct:
Advancements and Challenges 19
BARBARA K. HOFER
Chapter 3 Argumentative Reasoning 39
KALYPSO IORDANOU, PANAYIOTA KENDEOU, AND KATINKA BEKER
Chapter 4 Logical and Causal Reasoning 54
DAvID MOSHMAN AND PINA TARRICONE
Chapter 5 Theory of Mind 68
BEATE SODIAN AND SUSANNE KRISTEN
Chapter 6 Social Cognition 86
FABRICE CLéMENT
Chapter 7 The Arguments for and the Reasoning About
Epistemic Cognition 100
PATRICIA A. ALEXANDER
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Section II DISCIPLINARy PERSPECTIvES ON
EPISTEMIC COGNITION 111
Chapter 8 Epistemic Cognition in Science 113
ANDREW ELBY, CHRIS MACRANDER, AND DAvID HAMMER
Chapter 9 Epistemic Cognition in History 128
BRUCE vANSLEDRIGHT AND LILANA MAGGIONI
Chapter 10 Mathematical Epistemological Beliefs 147
FIEN DEPAEPE, ERIK DE CORTE, AND LIEvEN vERSCHAFFEL
Chapter 11 Epistemic Cognition in Literary Reasoning 165
CAROL D. LEE, SUSAN R. GOLDMAN, SARAH LEvINE, AND JOSEPH MAGLIANO
Chapter 12 Disciplinary Insights into the Study of Epistemic Cognition 184
WILLIAM A. SANDOvAL
Section III E PISTEMIC COGNITION WITHIN AND BEyOND
THE CLASSROOM 195
Chapter 13 Exploring Images of Epistemic Cognition Across
Contexts and Over Time 197
LEAH A. BRICKER AND PHILIP BELL
Chapter 14 Epistemic Cognition in Legal Reasoning 215
MICHAEL WEINSTOCK
Chapter 15 Epistemic Cognition and Reading for Understanding
in the Internet Age 230
HELGE I. STRøMSø AND YvONNE KAMMERER
Chapter 16 The Role of Epistemic Cognition in Teacher Learning
and Praxis 247
MICHELLE M. BUEHL AND HELENROSE FIvES
Chapter 17 Interacting Epistemic Systems within and Beyond
the Classroom 265
JEFFREY A. GREENE
Section Iv EPISTEMIC COGNITION INTERvENTIONS 279
Chapter 18 Teaching for Epistemic Change in Elementary Classrooms 281
LISA D. BENDIXEN
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Chapter 19 Changes in Preservice Teachers’ Personal Epistemologies 300
JO LUNN BROWNLEE, GREGORY SCHRAW, SUE WALKER, AND MARY RYAN
Chapter 20 Diverging Information and Epistemic Change 318
DOROTHE KIENHUES, LEILA FERGUSON, AND ELMAR STAHL
Chapter 21 Epistemic Climate for Epistemic Change 331
KRISTA R. MUIS, GREGORY TREvORS, AND MARIANNE CHEvRIER
Chapter 22 Epistemic Cognition Interventions: Issues,
Challenges, and Directions 360
IvAR BRåTEN
Section v MEASURING AND MODELING
EPISTEMIC COGNITION 373
Chapter 23 Psychological Perspectives on Measuring Epistemic
Cognition 375
LUCIA MASON
Chapter 24 Methodological Considerations for the Study
of Epistemic Cognition in Practice 393
GREGORY J. KELLY
Chapter 25 Epistemic (Meta)cognition: Ways of Thinking
about Knowledge and Knowing 409
SARIT BARzILAI AND ANAT zOHAR
Chapter 26 Epistemic Cognition and Motivation 425
JASON A. CHEN AND MICHAEL M. BARGER
Chapter 27 Interrogating the Relation Between Conceptual
Change and Epistemic Beliefs 439
P. KAREN MURPHY AND PATRICIA A. ALEXANDER
Chapter 28 Epistemic Cognition and Philosophy: Developing
a New Framework for Epistemic Cognition 460
CLARK A. CHINN AND RONALD W. RINEHART
Chapter 29 Thoughts on Knowledge about Thinking about Knowledge 479
GALE M. SINATRA
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Section vI FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR EPISTEMIC
COGNITION RESEARCH 493
Chapter 30 Refections and Future Directions 495
JEFFREY A. GREENE, WILLIAM A. SANDOvAL, AND IvAR BRåTEN
Index 51
