Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This interesting table dates from 2015 and draws from Peter Facione's 1990 'cognitive skills' (p. 12 or 15) and Thomas Kuhn's 1977 account of epistemic values (as extracted in a 1-page paywalled article by Linda Elder and Richard Paul). And the inclusion of 'self-regulation' as an epistemic value is something I would want to think about a lot more. I think it's a nice effort, though I think there's some cross-categorization in the definition of 'cognitive skills' and misapplication of Kuhn across the set of epistemic values (which were originally intended specifically for theory selection by a community). Via a couple of LinkedIn posts that disappeared while I was writing this, one referencing UQ's Critical Thinking Project, another referencing some resource you can access only by extracting keywords from the comments (yes, as ludicrous as it sounds).

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