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Schreck, Anna; Groß Ophoff, Jana; Rott, Benjamin – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
In modern information societies, evaluating information, data, or knowledge claims is crucial. As these activities are influenced by epistemological beliefs, such beliefs are a key element of education in the sense that educational institutions intend to prepare students for professional and social life. Hence, this study aims to examine the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Sequential Approach, Secondary School Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Becker, Anne – Human Rights Education Review, 2021
The aim of this paper is to search for possibilities to change the terms and content of conversations on colonial/decolonial human rights education. The content of conversations consists of what we know about human rights. The terms of conversations are the principles, assumptions, and rules of knowing in human rights education. The terms and…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Course Content, Teaching Methods, Ethnocentrism
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Clara Pracana, Editor; Michael Wang, Editor – Online Submission, 2024
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2024, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS), held in International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2024, held in Porto, Portugal, from 20 to 22 of April…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Statistics, Epistemology, Student Attitudes
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Heigl, Nicole Romana; Thomas, Joachim – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2013
Graduates expect higher education to provide both subject-specific knowledge as well as cross-curricular competencies in order to handle new and unknown situations in their professional life. In this regard, it is problematic that the latter construct is still both theoretically and empirically vague. In addition, concerning the fostering of…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Problem Solving, Metacognition, Higher Education
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Varsos, George – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2008
This article focuses on the figure of the university teacher of literature, viewed as an agent that possesses knowledge and transmits it via its oral word. The approach is historical and theoretical. The first part examines how different types of teaching are linked to different phases of the development of the university institution, from the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Written Language, Teaching Methods, Resistance (Psychology)
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Mahner, Martin – Science and Education, 1998
Examines the influence of phenomenalism from a realist perspective and its offshoot, operationalism, on concept formation in biology. Compares the basic tenants of phenomenalism with those of realism. Contains 69 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Epistemology
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Eigler, Gunther; And Others – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1991
Presents results of a German study distinguishing between effects of knowledge on writing and re-effects of writing on knowledge. Reports that knowledge primarily affects the content domain of text, especially topic relatedness and logical structure of text, but not the linguistic domain. Concludes that both oral and written verbalization enables…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Effect, Epistemology, Feedback
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Duit, Reinders; Komorek, Michael; Wilbers, Jens – Research in Science Education, 1997
Critically analyzes the core ideas of chaos theory to determine whether they are worth teaching and explores the accessibility of these ideas for students. The studies are embedded in a Model of Educational Reconstruction which seeks to bring science content structure concerns and educational concerns into balance and interaction with one another.…
Descriptors: Chaos Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
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Welzel, Manuela – Research in Science Education, 1997
Presents results from empirical studies of physics learning for different age groups using a situated cognition perspective to construct detailed understandings of how individual learning processes unfold. Contains 35 references. (PVD)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Research, Educational Change, Epistemology
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers