Activating teachers’ epistemic agency to implement knowledge building in classroom: A case analysis of the “Classi in rete” project

In this study we examined whether a training oriented to activate Epistemic Agency (Scardamalia, 2002) of teachers can allow them take the Knowledge Building (KB) perspective and realise appropriation use Forum (KF) environment. During project “Classi in rete”, promoted by INDIRE, 22 from primary lower secondary Abruzzi small schools participated an online discussion KF, focused on problems implementing KB model. Data has been analyzed through content analysis KF notes using analytics tools KF. Results showed teachers’ assumption prevalent exploratory nature identified, focus both technological teaching aspects work find different solutions about particular challenging problem. The is shown increase, during training, reading writing activity correlations among reading, writing, improving activity. Implications for are discussed.