This article aims to analyze Brazilian research on statistics education involving teachers to highlight methodological trends and training contexts mobilized by such research. To this end, a survey was carried out in the Dissertation and Thesis Bank of CAPES, considering the descriptor "Statistical Education" and the 2013-2018 timeframe.…

The paper reviews recent psycho-educational literature to identify features of teacher thinking which enable learners to acquire meaningful knowledge. The review establishes that one powerful mechanism to improve teaching in higher education turns on exploiting adults' epistemic beliefs: beliefs about the nature and the acquisition of…

In this paper I reviewed and analyzed three important constructs--beliefs, knowledge, and practices in mathematics teacher education. I carried out a literature review of teacher beliefs and practice, and beliefs and change in mathematics education in to order draw some pedagogical and research implications. I was able to draw three themes from…

Several years ago the authors, a professor from The Netherlands and another professor from the United States, met over coffee and discussions about teacher education at an international conference. With mutual interests in the role of teacher educators' development of their professional identity, the authors developed an intellectual relationship…

This article reviews the literature on culturally responsive schooling (CRS) for Indigenous youth with an eye toward how we might provide more equitable and culturally responsive education within the current context of standardization and accountability. Although CRS for Indigenous youth has been advocated for over the past 40 years, schools and…

Studies relationships between teacher epistemology, classroom interactions, and related student epistemologies and identities. Results indicate that classroom discourse, orchestrated by the teacher, likely mediates many of the associations between teacher and student epistemologies documented here. (Contains 36 references and an appendix.) (GCP)

Explores the nature and meaning of the dilemmas teachers encounter in the classroom as they respond to and interpret the tasks of learning. Reveals how teachers' perspectives toward knowledge and their view of themselves and their students as knowers enter their work. Illuminates features of the teacher-student relationship through discussion of…

Distinguishes radical skepticism from everyday skepticism and positional pedagogical skepticism. Theorizes on the systematic importance of radical skepticism as a philosophical orientation in education. Reviews the infrequent appearance of skepticism as a concept in the history of educational theory. (CH)

This paper presents an understanding of feminist teaching through a poststructural perspective which problematizes knowledge construction and meaning, in particular how feminist teachers create spaces for and struggle within the relationship of negotiating knowledge and knowing in higher education classrooms. The paper uses the term…

Contends that many students reject historical study because they see no connection between factual information and their own needs and interests. Suggests that this epistemology of the self can be used to analyze historical information. Recommends helping students see that historical fact is subject to individual and group interpretation. (CFR)

An empirical enquiry into the nature of academic disciplines is described. The main similarities and differences of six academic disciplines--physics, history, biology, sociology, mechanical engineering and law--are outlined. Different research styles are identified and characterized as urban and rural research styles. (Author/MLW)

The paper describes four major patterns that emerge in studies of college student intellectual development. Quotations from students' writing about their epistemological beliefs and quotations from professors' writing concerning their courses and students are related to the four patterns. Characteristics of student writing associated with each…

Epistemology traditionally has been defined as the division of philosophy that investigates the nature and origin of knowledge. More specifically, epistemology usually is said to be concerned with either the development of common bodies of knowledge or the establishment of personal knowledge. In recent years, epistemology also has come to be used…

This paper examines the degree to which women faculty and administrators are able to engage in connected knowing and interdependent definitions of self and reality within an institutional environment that values and rewards individualism, separateness, competition, and objectivity. The paper notes that connected knowing is essentially the process…