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Karimatus Saidah; Achmad Dardiri; Pujiyanti Fauziah – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
It is important for prospective elementary school teachers to know their epistemic beliefs because this is related to beliefs about how to teach in schools and how learning should be done, which are called pedagogical beliefs. This study aims to investigate whether epistemic beliefs can predict the pedagogical beliefs of prospective elementary…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Predictor Variables, Elementary School Teachers
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Christopher T. McCaw; Mary Ryan; Jo Lunn Brownlee – Journal of Educational Change, 2024
Under 'post-truth' conditions the generation, circulation and status of knowledge are being transformed, with significant implications for institutional trust, social cohesion and public safety. These conditions raise complex challenges and opportunities within education, which plays a potentially pivotal role in supporting communities to respond…
Descriptors: Ethics, Epistemology, Trust (Psychology), Teacher Attitudes
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Davut Saritas; Oktay Kizkapan – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
While the epistemic beliefs are defined as beliefs about knowledge and knowing, the nature of science (NOS) is about the epistemological and ontological foundations of science, how scientists work, how scientific knowledge is produced, how it is tested and validated and how society affects or reacts to science. In this study, the link between…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Scientific Principles, Epistemology, Beliefs
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Ellen Watson; Gregory Thomas – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical Examination.] Epistemic beliefs about physics are most often investigated using quantitative instruments that reflect binary conceptualizations of those beliefs. This study reports from a qualitative study which used continua to represent the epistemic beliefs…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Physics, Foreign Countries
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Catherine Lammert; Brian Hand – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Embracing curricular reforms such as the Next Generation Science Standards poses unique challenges for early childhood science teachers who often value play and curiosity, but are challenged by the depth of scientific disciplinary practices expected by these standards. To explore possibilities for teacher growth, this research draws on Noddings'…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Science Teachers, Epistemology, Teacher Attitudes
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Charlotta Nordlöf; Gunnar Höst; Jonas Hallström – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: The subject of technology looks different depending on context. There is also an epistemological complexity to technological knowledge in technology education. Purpose: To gain a deeper understanding of the epistemological foundations of the subject of technology and technology teaching, the teachers' views are needed. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Teacher Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Epistemology
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Erixon, Per-Olof; Hansson, Kristina – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2023
This article deals with the personal epistemologies developed by teachers who undergo academic continuing education on an advanced level at a time when conflicting discourses form the basis of teaching in today's school, i.e. academisation on one hand and measurability and accountability in the name of New Public Management on the other. To give…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Epistemology, Faculty Development
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Curt Adams; Olajumoke Beulah Adigun; Ashlyn Fiegener – Journal of Educational Administration, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to introduce teacher epistemic curiosity for student learning into the leadership literature and to determine if school principals can support it. The inquiry was organized by the following research question: In what ways can principal--teacher conversations support teacher epistemic curiosity for student…
Descriptors: Teacher Administrator Relationship, Principals, Interpersonal Communication, Epistemology
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Letizia Caronia – Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
This article investigates the interactional constitution of a phenomenon recurrently reported by teachers who complain about a loss of authority, a systematic delegitimization of their role. Adopting a conversation analysis informed approach to a single-case study from a corpus of parent-teacher conferences, we illustrate how challenging the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Parent Teacher Conferences, Expertise, Discourse Analysis
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Gandhi, Haneet – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
This study explores the epistemic considerations that seemed to govern thirty-one Indian teachers' beliefs while teaching certain concepts of probability, especially using random generators. It focuses on knowing how these teachers make transitions between the different interpretations of probability, namely, Logical (sometimes also known as…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Bret A. Sikkink – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study employed quantitative methods to analyze survey results related to the epistemic beliefs and classroom practices of economics educators. Studying economics has positive benefits at the individual, family, and social levels, but analysis of learning outcomes suggests that economics education needs to increase student engagement and…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Economics Education, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Cramer, Colin; Brown, Chris; Aldridge, David – Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
The present work discusses the relevance of "meta-reflexivity," both for the professionalization of the teaching profession and for teacher education. Meta-reflexivity is based on the multiparadigmatic system of teacher education, which finds itself grounded in diverse scientific disciplines. The approach takes uncertainty as an…
Descriptors: Reflection, Metacognition, Reflective Teaching, Professionalism
Ding, Chenchen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation focused on the outcome of elementary science teachers' learning in theories and practices of epistemic tools in professional workshops over the course of two years, starting in the summer of 2019. Study one focuses on teachers' understanding of language as an epistemic tool. The data were teachers' written responses to a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Education, Science Instruction
Reinke, Brady – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teacher engagement in evidence-based practice has been a concern of the K-5 educational community for many years, with studies finding teachers' engagement with research may be growing, but is still not consistent. Epistemic beliefs are becoming a popular topic in the study of the learning process with a limited number of qualitative studies…
Descriptors: Profiles, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Evidence Based Practice
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Flanagan, Ruth – Journal of Religious Education, 2023
Divergence is not a new phenomenon in RE in England and Wales. A diverse range of aims and approaches have been promoted since RE provision became compulsory in 1944. Approaches include the phenomenological, interpretative, and dialogic with current debates centring around the benefits and challenges of a 'worldviews approach'. There have been a…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Foreign Countries, World Views, Definitions
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