What is Epistemic Cognition

Being able to operationalize the concepts of inclusion and diversity is now an integral part of change integration and management in UK higher education institutes. With emphasis on the societal impact of education as well as its role in ensuring optimal employability and widening participation for first generation graduates, being able to co-construct academic curricula is now regarded as a desirable norm. Being able to also enhance the concept of student agency also moves co-constructive approaches to curriculum development beyond merely a tokenistic gesture in the uncertain contextual backdrop of politics, culture, and the dynamics of constant change. This chapter provides an insight into curriculum design as an overall holistic structure and a mechanism of extending the context of academic praxis into the social world. The chapter posits the idea that curricula can be a strategic lens through which students' active participation and co-creation can be illuminated and further extended.