Connecting Learning and Becoming: Studying Epistemologies and Identities as Interconnected, Dynamic Systems

Abstract

This symposium brings together researchers from different countries, research disciplines and theoretical orientations, all of whom are engaged in the empirical study of connections between epistemologies and identities in educational settings. By comparing and contrasting their conceptions, methods and findings we seek to identify common themes and challenges, on the basis of which learning scientists might develop a more coordinated agenda for future research. Specifically, we propose to examine the timescales of processes studied, researchers' assumptions about the conceptual relations between epistemologies and identities, and the extent to which particular kinds of interaction between epistemologies and identities are local or universal.