Crossing Silos: Promoting Critical Thinking with Epistemic Insight: Recent Episodes

St Mary's University

Students live in a constantly changing, uncertain environment and face a variety of Big Questions about personhood and the nature of reality, pertinent to social, environmental, and economic global issues within the 21st century. Through the Epistemic Insight framework, we can support the next generation of teachers to develop a detailed understanding of the distinctive features of discrete disciplines and how they interact.. This suite of podcasts acts as a platform to showcase how teacher educators from a range of institutions have engaged with the EI project and how EI informs their teaching of their chosen subject. In addition podcasts provide an overview of how research engaged teacher educators use Epistemic insight. It is a platform to clarify how EI can inform your teaching and the voice EI has in developing the Initial teacher education sector. At St Mary’s University our for an inclusive diverse and sustainable workforce underpins our approach to teacher education at the institute of education. These podcasts will explore how Epistemic insight aligns with our vision at st Marys to develop staff and future teachers who teach like the world matters

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In episode five, Rob chats to Dr Jane Essex, Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Strathclyde about inclusion

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Join Rob in Episode four as he speaks to Dr Alex Sinclair, Lecturer in Primary Science at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and Co-Chair Elect of the Association of Science Education about epistemology.

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In the third Episode of Crossing Silos. In this episode, Robert is joined by Lisa Pandford, St Mary's University, and Jacqui Small, a researcher working on this EI project. Today we're discussing all things Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

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In the first episode of Crossing Silos, Promoting Critical Thinking in Epistemic Insight, Robert Campbell, St Mary's Univeristy, Twickenham, speaks to Dr Aga Gordon from Canterbury Christ Church University and Adrian Warhurst from University of Leicester about all things Epistemic Insight.

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In the second episode, Robert is speaking to Sarah Batty from St Mary's University about all things Epistemic Insight.