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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"epistemic agency"”.
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Examining Changes in African American Students' Epistemic Agency as STEM Learners
… be responsive to sociohistorical factors of epistemic injustice that dissociated African Americans identities from being producers of knowledge. This study argues that the construction of a learning progression to advance the epistemic participation of African American students is aligned …
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He aha kei tua atu o te kohu kawata? What lies beyond the silvery mist? Epistemic agency at the intersection of mātauranga Māori and biological science knowledge worlds
… knowledge, 2) Mātauranga Māori knowledge, and 3) Epistemic learner agency. The findings from this research have identified how the participants used scientific and cultural knowledge when justifying their position on the 1080 issue. The application of the first two conceptual frameworks …
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African youth constructions of safety: A multi-country photovoice study
… danger. I was particularly focused on resisting epistemic violence and supporting youth epistemic agency in this project. The study is situated within a multi-African country Photovoice project and underscores the importance of considering youth constructions of safety within their …
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Caring from the margins: Community HIV/AIDS care work as social reproduction in the era of HIV/AIDS
… holds that all in the study terrain have epistemic agency, and as such I was interested in making meaning of care workers' own representations of their experiences, and what their representations could mean for theorising about care work as a new form of social reproduction, situated in …
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Tracing fifth-grade students' epistemologies in modeling through their participation in a model-based curriculum unit
… this study, I propose development of students' epistemic agency as an overarching goal for this practice-based approach to science learning. In particular, I argue that students' epistemologies, one dimension of epistemic agency, should be developed as a result of participating in practice-based …
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Knowing and Expressing Ourselves
… knows ones mental states in a way that is highly epistemically secure relative to other varieties of contingent empirical knowledge. Roughly, one has peculiar self-knowledge insofar as one acquires it in a way that is available only to oneself. In Chapter One I consider several more detailed …
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Healing the Colonial Wound: Decolonising Ghanaian Art Education through Reparative Art Praxis
… These colonial legacies have enforced an epistemic alignment in Ghanaian education to Eurocentricity, Western aesthetics, and colonial logics. These legacies have thereby limited the epistemic agency and imaginations of Ghanaians. However, decolonial methods and thinking have not yet been …
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Learning Through Lowriding: Knowledge in the Garage
… processes delegitimize the intellectual agency of lowriders, rendering their knowledge systems institutionally illegible. This dissertation argues that such epistemic invisibility denies lowriders the agency to define their own intellectual contributions, and it reclaims lowriding as a …