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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"personal epistemology"”.
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Personal epistemology: Implications for stress in college students
This research 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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Professional education and personal epistemology: a post qualifying social work case study.
… for professional education and the nature of personal epistemology for post qualifying (PQ) social work students. The main purpose is to facilitate these students’ awareness of personal epistemology and enable them to validly articulate their own knowledge in this context. The thesis adopts an …
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Artifact-based reflective interviews for identifying pragmatic epistemological resources
… I explore one source of student difficulty: personal epistemology, students' ideas about knowledge and knowing.</p><p>Epistemology traditionally answers three questions: What is knowledge? How is knowledge created? And, how do we know what we know? An individual's responses to these questions …
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Understanding the epistemology-learning connection when exploring an ill-structured task using the Internet
… 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 beliefs in affecting their knowledge exploration processes. When covariates (i.e., prior …
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Dialogic education, historical thinking and epistemic beliefs: a design-based research study of teaching in Taiwanese classrooms
… thinking and (2) the trajectory of historical personal epistemology through a design-based approach. Empirical evidence emerging in previous decades has acknowledged that good quality classroom dialogue could have a positive impact on students’ learning. Through dialogic teaching, it has been …
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A case study in refactoring computer science education
… identified variation across the themes of personal epistemology, epistemology of computer science, conception of teaching and learning and practice of teaching and learning. During the second phase six participants actively reflected on the alignment between their conceptions of teaching …
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Desires and dispositions
… It is also usually assumed that the first-personal epistemology of belief and desire will be roughly the same. Given this, there have been attempts to extend a promising account of introspection for belief to desire, and I address this in chapter 3. On this account, we know our beliefs by …
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Epistemological Connections to PreK-8 Teachers' Descriptions of Good Teaching, Good Student Behavior, and Teaching for Understanding: A Mixed Methods Study
… the relationship between elementary teachers' epistemology, as measured by the Learning Context Questionnaire (Griffith & Chapman, 1982) and teachers' descriptions of good teaching, good student behaviors, and teaching for understanding. Teachers' (N = 36) descriptions were collected after they …
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Development and Validation of Pre-service Teachers' Personal Epistemologies of Teaching Scale (PT-PETS)
… of knowledge and the process of knowing, that is personal epistemology, are related to their teaching and their students' learning, little work has done to examine its role of teachers' personal epistemologies in preparing future generations of teachers. The purpose of this study was to develop …
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Slow has become Urgent. How can I Foster a Slow Pedagogy in a Preschool for Children with Special Needs?
… Throughout the research I have questioned my personal epistemology and I can now conclude that I have improved my teaching practice and developed deeper connections with the children while fostering a slow pedagogy, I have created my own epistemology, I have lived closer to my values and …