Expertise, fluency and social realism about professional knowledge

In recent years, the sociology of education has seen a renewed interest in realist accounts of knowledge and its place in education. Inspired by ‘social realist’ thinking, a body of work has emerged that criticises the dominance of generic and process-based thinking about (especially) professional education and advocates instead a revaluation of discipline-based and theoretical knowledge. In this paper, I discuss the role of the concept of...