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Peer reviewedBuchmann, Margret – Curriculum Inquiry, 1985
The tentativeness of knowledge is a safety catch that a pretension to usefulness tends to remove. The problematic concept of knowledge utilization defeats the purposes of both knowing and action, for it overestimates the certainty of knowledge and underestimates the range of valid practical concerns. Thirty-seven references are provided.…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Concept Formation, Epistemology, Foundations of Education
