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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Knowledge, Theory of."”.
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Job satisfaction among nurses and its relationship to reflective practice /
… study that listens to the perspectives of 7 mental health nurses who work In a conmiunity hospital in southern Ontario. A pilot survey was conducted prior to the face-to -face interviews in order to develop meaningful questions to utilize in the interviews. Nurses participating in the …
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Understanding the epistemology-learning connection when exploring an ill-structured task using the Internet
Within the context of exploring an ill-structured task using the Google search engine, this study examines 1) the connections between personal epistemology and the complexity of knowledge exploration (i.e., learning complexity), and 2) the role of activating learners' task-oriented epistemic …
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Boundaries of the cognitive phenotype of autism: social cognition and central coherence in young people with autistic traits and their first degree relatives
… types. At the cognitive level, groups of people with autistic disorder can be differentiated from people without the disorder by their ability to reason about beliefs and knowledge (Theory of Mind) and by tests of visual disembedding (central coherence). This study examined whether …
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Tracing fifth-grade students' epistemologies in modeling through their participation in a model-based curriculum unit
… as a reform focus in K-12 science education of the United States. In this context, scientific practices refer to practices that have family resemblance to scientists' professional practices and simultaneously are pedagogically accessible and useful to students. In this study, I propose …
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Discourse, dogma, and domination : knowledge work as art and politics
… gaps among management literatures as discourses of ambition and evaluates them against the realities that constitute praxis. The work provides a different insight into organisational and management theory that encourages critical thinking about the normalising effects of discourse, and points to …
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A comparative study of the religious epistemology of Carl F. H. Henry and Alvin Plantiga
… dissertation compares the religious epistemology of Carl F. H. Henry and of Alvin Plantinga. Chapter 1 briefly examines the impact of the Enlightenment and its subsequent developments upon religious epistemology and provides an overview of the thought of Carl F. H. Henry and of Alvin Plantinga. …
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An analysis of epistemology in the book of Proverbs in relationship to the sources of knowledge used in evangelical Sunday School curriculum
… related to curriculum development are the areas of philosophy known as metaphysics, epistemology and axiology. Most research focused on the areas of metaphysics and axiology while very little study concentrated on epistemology, leaving a gap of knowledge in curriculum development. By the term …
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Micro, meso and macro materials processing using high-speed liquid projectiles
The objective of this research is developmentof aknowledge base of materials processing by the impact of high-speed liquid projectiles. The work involved experimental study of generation and applications of high-speed liquid projectiles. The projectiles were generated by the launchers, which used …
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Être et jugement : étude sur la théorie des catégories dans la philosophie de Rickert
L'objectif de ce travail est de se réapproprier la contribution de Heinrich Rickert au programme critique de fondation de l'ontologie. Il est apparu que cette contribution résidait dans l'analyse des structures formelles du jugement et, plus exactement, dans l'analyse du jugement existentiel. À la …
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Gestão do conhecimento: uma análise sobre a central de inquéritos policiais do Ministério Público do Estado da Bahia
Esta pesquisa qualitativa, de cunho exploratório-descritiva, avalia a gestão do conhecimento na Central de Inquéritos Policiais do Ministério Público do Estado da Bahia (MPBA), na cidade de Salvador. Para tanto, identificou-se os principais processos associados à referida organização, por meio dos …
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A comparison of selected theological concepts and the learning process as they relate to religious knowledge as found in Ernest Ligon and Paul Tillich
<p>It was the purpose of this study (1) to present selected aspects of Ernest Ligon's view of the learning process as it applies to religious knowledge; (2) to present selected aspects of Paul Tillich's view of the learning process as it applies to religious knowledge; (3) to compare Ernest Ligon's …
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Action, Motive, and Self-Knowledge—An Inquiry into the Uncertain Agent
It is often of moral and political significance that we know why we act. Realizing that one acts out of love, for instance, has the potential to radically alter one’s course of life. Similarly, understanding how one’s own actions are permeated by social norms can be an important step towards …