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Lorraine Ling
In education everyone considers him- or herself an expert who is competent to offer advice, because everyone has had some experience of schooling or of something that purports to be an educational institution or activity. Therefore, unlike most other social processes where professionals are engaged, in education we have everyone voicing opinions and beliefs about the way teachers ought to teach or learners ought to learn. In this paper I will refer to these untrained opinion holders as armchair experts as distinct from those who have been trained in the knowledge, skills, and modes of inquiry of the profession of education.
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Armchair Experts