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Janice Leigh Klima – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative descriptive case study explores how genealogists describe the mechanism of epistemic change in their research, highlighting the roles of epistemological doubt, epistemological volition, and resolution strategies. It explores the integration of digital technologies in genealogical practices in the United States and their…
Descriptors: Genealogy, Epistemology, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes
Tsai, Chi-Ruei; Hong, Jon-Chao; Tai, Kai-Hsin – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
A variety of studies have attempted to explain the dispositions of imagination; notably, imagination engages and develops an individual's creativity. In the present study, we propose that three types of imagination dispositions (i.e., epistemic, sensory, and future imagination) serve as cognitive mechanisms for the ability to efficiently generate…
Descriptors: Imagination, Creativity, Epistemology, Sensory Experience
Alexander B. Pratt – Educational Theory, 2024
The recent shift in social science research toward philosophies of the more-than-human has pushed many scholars to question their understanding of units of analysis and agency. While many engage with agencies of the material, few have attempted to address what might be called the agency of ideas. Here, Alexander Pratt argues that engaging with the…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Qualitative Research, Social Science Research, Research Methodology
Linda Evans – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
In 2014 the "International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD)" issued a call for papers for 'Beyond learning and teaching: Extending the frontiers of academic development'. Though it was never published, the conceptual and definitional opacity that this special issue was expected to address, along with prevalent epistemic…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Scholarship, Definitions, Epistemology
Julie Rattray – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Higher education is facing increasing calls to engage in a process of intellectual decolonisation. This process necessitates that we take time to consider both the content of our curriculum and the pedagogic practices used to facilitate its understanding. Drawing on discussions of both intellectual decolonisation and its underpinning principles of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Power Structure, Decolonization, Justice
Winkelmann, Jan – Science & Education, 2023
Idealizations are omnipresent in science. However, to date, science education research has paid surprisingly little attention to the use of idealizations in fostering students' model competence and understanding of the nature of science (NOS). The starting point for the theoretical reflection in this paper is that insufficient consideration of…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Educational Research, Science Instruction
Elisa Izquierdo-Acebes; Keith S. Taber – Science & Education, 2024
The construction of scientific explanations is recognised by science education researchers and curriculum developers as one of the core epistemic practices in which students should acquire proficiency. However, little is known about the knowledge and skills that teachers must and do put into practice to successfully engage their students in…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Gatley, Jane – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
The concept of 'knowledge' is central to education, particularly when it comes to the school curriculum. This paper makes the case for engaging in conceptual analysis, and in particularly conceptual engineering, in educational studies. Conceptual engineering emphasises analysing concepts with their purposes in mind. To illustrate the importance of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Concept Formation, Epistemology, Educational Philosophy
Vargas, Carlos Manuel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As psychology grows in popularity, most students select professions related to therapy, which constantly deem statistics courses as irrelevant and accentuate negative attitudes. This study explores perspectives of knowledge, also known as epistemological frames, that students enrolled in a psychology-based course in statistics generate and the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Statistics Education, Psychology, Majors (Students)
Guershon Harel – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2024
"Epistemological justification" is a way of thinking that manifests itself through perturbation-resolution cycles revolving around the question "why and how was a piece of mathematical knowledge conceived?" The paper offers a conceptual framework for constituent elements of epistemological justification. The framework provides:…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills
Berna Yüner – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2023
In parallel with the increase in social expectations regarding education and its outcomes, studies on school effectiveness continue unabated. The ability of educational organizations to provide qualitatively higher education has become the focus of the researches. In this direction, school governance, the adaptation of governance principles to…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods
Derek Gladwin; Naoko Ellis – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Energy is fundamental to our existence. And yet, energy remains difficult to understand and discuss, particularly the impacts or limitations of certain energy systems and how energy functions in sociocultural contexts. Bridging theory and practice, energy literacy expands what we know about energy and how we may think about it in the world around…
Descriptors: Energy, Environmental Education, Literacy, Climate
Calduch, Isaac; Rattray, Julie – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Within the Threshold Concepts Framework, 'postliminal variation' has been defined as the variation in the point and state of exit into a new conceptual space, and the epistemological and ontological terrain encountered from that point onwards. However, in the extensive published literature on threshold concepts, we find many cases in which its…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Higher Education, Concept Formation, World Views
Thorne, Sapphira R.; Quilty-Dunn, Jake; Smortchkova, Joulia; Shea, Nicholas; Hampton, James A. – Cognitive Science, 2021
This paper reports the first empirical investigation of the hypothesis that epistemic appraisals form part of the structure of concepts. To date, studies of concepts have focused on the way concepts encode properties of objects and the way those features are used in categorization and in other cognitive tasks. Philosophical considerations show the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Concept Formation, Classification, Philosophy
Han, Moonhyun; Gutierez, Sally B. – Research in Science Education, 2023
Recent studies suggest that teachers' emotions can influence their teaching. Guided by a phenomenological orientation, we used a qualitative single-case study approach to investigate the interplay between a teacher's emotions and the enactment of her instructional goals. We looked at Lily's (pseudonym) assessments of the success and failure of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Emotional Response, Teacher Influence