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Showing 1 to 20 of 1114 for “"epistemological"”.
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Inscrutability: An Epistemological Experiment
Through four different projects, this thesis explores the idea of dimensions of representation, a concept introduced by 20th century French philosopher Michel Foucault in his book The Order of Things. Foucault argues that the Classical episteme, which Foucault defines as the discourse surrounding …
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Epistemological congruency in community college classrooms: effects of epistemological beliefs on students experiences
… of this mixed method study was to explore epistemological beliefs of students as well as those of their instructors to determine how epistemological congruence or incongruence shapes students’ experiences. The term, “epistemological congruency” is introduced to conceptualize the …
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Epistemological Authenticity in Science Classrooms
… Chapter two articulates a conceptualization, epistemological authenticity, of the nature of student activity necessary to achieve these instructional goals. Such activity involves students engaging in scientific practices with the same purposes as scientists. Chapter three uses a case study of …
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Epistemological implications of representational pluralism
… a substantial revision of the traditional epistemological framework. I proceed to introduce some potential consequences of departing from the propositional knowledge tradition in epistemology. These consequences pertain most directly to two issues, namely, philosophical methodology and our …
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Assessing Epistemological Development among Evangelical Seminarians
… according to John David Trentham’s categories of epistemological priorities and competencies.
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(Multilingual) Knowledge representation for epistemological access
… of using knowledge representation to enhance epistemological access for learners, specifically, enhancing understanding of school science by learners with limited proficiency in academic English. In the dissertation, sample texts from a life science textbook were modeled into entities and …
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The nature of epistemological beliefs about learning
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Darwinian humility : epistemological applications of evolutionary science
I use evolutionary science - its tenets and theory, as well as the evidence for it - to investigate the extent and nature of human knowledge by exploring the relation between human cognition, epistemic luck, and biological and cultural fitness. In "The Epistemic Upshot of Adaptationist …
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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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Personal Epistemological Growth in a College Chemistry Laboratory Environment
… features of reasoning related to personal epistemological and NOS beliefs in light of specific science laboratory instructional pedagogical practices (e.g., pre- and post- laboratory activities, laboratory work) for future research. This research employed a mixed methodology, foregrounding …
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Artifact-based reflective interviews for identifying pragmatic epistemological resources
… epistemology is not identical to how one behaves epistemologically. In response to these issues, I present here a new methodology for research on student epistemology: video artifact-based reflective interview protocols. These protocols begin with video taping students in their natural classroom …
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An ontological and epistemological paradigm for clinical decision support
… centred paradigm to a coherent ontological-epistemological paradigm. This was achieved by formalising a coherent ontological and epistemological framework, and then applying it practically to clinical decision support. Initially the thesis reviews the need for a coherent philosophy in …
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Buddhist Philosophy and the Epistemological Foundations of Conflict Resolution.
The aim of this research is to expand the framework of contemporary conflict resolution by constructing a complementary relationship between Western epistemologies and a Buddhist epistemology. Despite its evolution and development through self-reflexivity and self-critique, contemporary conflict …
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Assessing University Students' Epistemological Beliefs About Foreign Language Learning
Concept mapping, criterion-referenced language test development, and web-based data collection were successfully used in this research design as methods of increasing the reliability and validity of the FLBS-E. Suggestions are given for future use of these and other combinations of …
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An Epistemological and Ethical Justification of Educational Research and Practice
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Reasonable Creates: British Equestrianism and Epistemological Responsibility in Late Modernity
… they invoke. In contrast, I argue that the 'epistemological responsibility' involved in knowing the horse well requires a complex and highly particular mastery of the dualistic distinctions, rather than a negation of them. In making this argument, I also contribute to the anthropology of …
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Towards establishing an epistemological position for library and information science
… to establish and evaluate an appropriate epistemological position for library and information science. An epistemological position called holistic perspectivism is proposed as one which satisfies the postulated criteria. A graphic model of this position is explained as a means of …
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On the epistemological significance of aesthetic values in architectural theory
This dissertation examines the epistemological significance of "truth," "rationality," and the "aesthetic" first in the nineteenth-century definitions of the nature of Gothic and, then in more recent twentieth-century debates about objectivity. My study links the Aristotelian notion of practical …
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First Hospitality for Educability: An Ethical, Epistemological, and Political Symbiotic Relationship
The major aim of the thesis is to inquire into the human problem of the exclusion and marginalization of 'the other' from a philosophical and historical perspective. The problem arises from a modern conceptual paradigm in which 'the other' is not engaged with. The modern paradigm was influenced by …
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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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