Revisited: “What Should We Teach as Controversial? A Defense of the Epistemic Criterion”
Abstract In this invited essay for the 75 th Anniversary Special Issue of Educational Theory , I revisit my 2008 article “What Should We Teach as Controversial? A Defense of the Epistemic Criterion.” I briefly summarize my argument, then survey the various objections it has attracted in the years since its publication. I focus in on a criticism I call the value worry about the epistemic criterion and try to show that it is unsuccessful.
Authors
- Michael Hand (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1643-8213)
Institutions
- University of Birmingham (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Educational Theory
- Published
- 2025-11-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.70065
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 10.33