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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Epistemological Development"”.
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Assessing Epistemological Development among Evangelical Seminarians
… described and rated the intellectual and ethical development of students and others. The population of evangelical seminary students among three institutional types of seminaries is the unique contribution of this work. Seminary students are preparing for a career that requires critical thinking …
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Epistemological Development in Pre-Ministry Undergraduates Attending Secular Universities
… through positions established by Perry in his epistemological developmental scheme. The qualitative research design consisted of six steps. The first step consisted of customizing the Trentham Interview Protocol which entailed adding a line of questioning exploring the impact of attending …
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She Knows Truth: Toward a Redemptive Model of Women's Epistemological Development
… and Baxter Magolda have spoken the loudest on epistemological development in past decades with numerous follow-up studies that sought to confirm and add to their ideas. Christian higher education has generally accepted or sought to integrate these models which include developmental …
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Epistemological development in pre-ministry undergraduates attending confessional Christian liberal arts colleges and universities
The research explores the epistemological development of pre-ministry undergraduates in confessional Christian liberal arts colleges and universities. The Perry Scheme is the basis for the evaluation. This is a replication study of a 2012 Perry Scheme analysis of pre-ministry graduates in a …
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Epistemological Development in Pre-Ministry Undergraduates: A Cross-Institutional Application of the Perry Scheme
… of this study was to explore the variance of epistemological development in pre-ministry undergraduates across different institutional contexts, using the Perry Scheme as a theoretical lens. Semi-structured interviews were employed in order to elicit information from participants that revealed …
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Evaluating the Epistemological Development of Pre-Ministry Undergraduates at Bible Colleges According to the Perry Scheme
… This qualitative interview study analyzed the epistemological development of Bible college students. I used the Perry Scheme as a model and research by John David Trentham as a theoretical lens to examine the relationship between pre-ministry undergraduates' attendance at selected Bible …
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Art-based knowing: first-person inquiry into epistemology, voice and agency from a gendered perspective
… action research inquiry into feminine epistemological development, voice and voiceless-ness; working with art-based approaches, with metaphor and with embodied ways of knowing.
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Personal epistemology: Implications for stress in college students
… study investigated whether college students' epistemological beliefs (i.e. certain knowledge, simple knowledge, fixed ability, quick learning, and omniscient authority) could predict negative stressors and/or reactions to stress in their college experience. Based on responses to two …
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Influences On Biology Students' Acceptance Of Evolution
… may investigate the influence of gender, epistemological development, faith development, moral development, maturation, and the influence of print and television media on acceptance of evolution.
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Black School Leader Truth: How Black School Leader Epistemology Influences Liberatory Mindset Development in Their Staff
… in the traditional public system. The epistemological and pedagogical beliefs embedded in a liberatory mindset can subvert this pattern of disempowerment (Shujaa, 1998). Black school leaders (BSLs) who understand the systemic and institutional pressures Black children may face and have …
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Enemies of Science: The Handmaiden's Handmaiden in the Early Medieval West
… of knowing that have informed our scientific and epistemological development frequently tends to obscure historical continuity. My goal in this undertaking is to firmly establish how we may understand that the intellectual revolution beginning in twelfth-century Europe was founded on a rich and …
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What's in a word? the discursive construction of 'creativity'.
… where appropriate, in order to highlight my epistemological development during the course of the research. This takes the form of ʻinterruptionsʼ between chapters. I argue, ultimately, that there is a case for only operating with the term ʻcreativityʼ in a reflexive, meta-discursive way and …
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The Literary Reception of the Spirituality of Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784): an Afrosensitive Reading
… of an Afrosensitive hermeneutic, exploring the epistemological development of Afrocentric thought as a Eurocentric counterfactual. Bebbington’s quadrilateral is the exploratory portal used to discern Wheatley’s commitment to evangelical theology. Chapter 3 assesses Wheatley’s critique of …
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The Impact of Postgraduate Qualifications in Medical Education
… of medical education, with various development initiatives including postgraduate qualifications. The demand for these qualifications in medical education can be judged by the increase in providers, from 2 to 31 in the UK and from 7 to 124 worldwide over the last two decades. …
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The Onto-Epistemology of Ru'yat Allah in the Classical Ash'arī School
… ruʾyat Allāh the study will explore the logico-epistemological development of the classical Ashʿarī school, and how, through this totemic theological question (and others like it) it came to reject its earlier logical methods, thus paving the way for its subsequent move towards a more robust …
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Power and leadership : a perspective from college women
… is based on theories of women's moral and epistemological development (Gilligan, 1982; Belenky et al., 1986). Separate leadership is based on the ethic of justice and rights. Connected leadership is based on the ethic of care and connection. Constructed leadership is based on a balance …