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Practical Epistemic Cognition in a Design Project - Engineering Students Developing Epistemic Fluency
Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden.
Jönköping University, School of Engineering, JTH, Computer Science and Informatics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2823-5245
Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
2019 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Education, ISSN 0018-9359, E-ISSN 1557-9638, Vol. 62, no 3, p. 216-225, article id 8703388Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Contribution: This paper reports engineering students' practical epistemic cognition by studying their interactional work in situ. Studying "epistemologies in action'' the study breaks away from mainstream approaches that describe this in terms of beliefs or of stage theories.

Background: In epistemology, knowledge is traditionally seen as "justified true belief'', neglecting knowledge related to action. Interest has increased in studying the epistemologies people use in situated action, and their development of epistemic fluency. How appropriate such approaches are in engineering and design education need further investigation.

Research Questions: 1) How do students in the context of a design project use epistemic tools in their interactional work? and 2) What are the implications of the findings in terms of how students' cognitive and epistemological development could be conceptualized?

Methodology: A collaborative group of six students were video recorded on the 14th day of a fifth-semester design project, as they were preparing for a formal critique session. The entire, almost 6 h, session was recorded by four video cameras mounted in the design studio, with an additional fifth body-mounted camera. The video data collected was analyzed using video ethnographic, conversation analysis, and embodied interaction analysis methods.

Findings: The results show that the students use a wealth of bodily material resources as an integral and seamless part of their interactions as epistemic tools, in their joint production of understanding and imagining. The analysis also suggests that students' epistemological and cognitive development, individually and as a group, should be understood in terms of developing "epistemic fluency.'' 

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IEEE, 2019. Vol. 62, no 3, p. 216-225, article id 8703388
Keywords [en]
Cameras, Cognition, Collaborative learning, design thinking, Engineering students, epistemic cognition, epistemic fluency, epistemology, interaction analysis, Knowledge engineering, problem-based learning, Tools, video ethnography, Engineering research, Students, Video cameras, Problem based learning, Engineering education
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-44107DOI: 10.1109/TE.2019.2912348ISI: 000480307400008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85065444768Local ID: PP JTH 2019;JTHDatateknikISOAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-44107DiVA, id: diva2:1320813
Available from: 2019-06-05 Created: 2019-06-05 Last updated: 2019-09-12Bibliographically approved

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