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Walker, Sue; Brownlee, Jo Lunn; Scholes, Laura; Harris, Clare – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2022
Research shows that epistemic cognition can support reasoning about the inclusion of diverse children. We argue that, to engage in such reasoning, children need the capacity to consider and evaluate competing knowledge perspectives (epistemic cognition) and to be cognitively flexible. Cognitive flexibility involves a subset of skills within the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Executive Function, Schemata (Cognition), Barriers
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Rinehart, Ronald W.; Kuhn, Mason; Milford, Todd M. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2022
Background: A reformed view of science education positions argumentation as a central epistemic discourse practice in the science classroom, however, science education researchers have found that typical norms of classroom discourse fall short of promoting argumentation. Recent scholarship on teachers' personal epistemologies has suggested that…
Descriptors: Correlation, Middle School Students, Elementary School Students, Teacher Attitudes
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Wu, Dandan; Liao, Ting; Yang, Weipeng; Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This study aims to explore the relationships between Scientific Epistemic Beliefs (SEB), Science Teaching Beliefs (STB) and Science-specific Pedagogical Content Knowledge (Science-PCK) in preservice kindergarten teachers from China. Altogether 987 preservice teachers were randomly sampled from a teacher education institution and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Scientific Attitudes, Epistemology, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Mages, Wendy K. – Research in Drama Education, 2006
This article proposes a cognitive theory of how drama affects two aspects of language development: narrative comprehension and narrative production. It is a theoretical model that explicitly posits the role of the imagination in drama's potential to enhance the development of both narrative comprehension and narrative production. (Contains 2…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Language Acquisition, Listening Comprehension, Imagination