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Interviews Regarding Epistemological Beliefs

2021
To identify epistemological beliefs regarding mathematics, an interview study was conducted. The interviewees were selected to represent as broad a sample as possible, ranging from university students (pre-service teachers of mathematics) to in-service teachers, working mathematicians, and full professors (of mathematics and mathematics education).
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Epistemology and the Ethics of Belief

1996
Abstract The last three chapters have argued that there is no good reasons to doubt the possible historical truth and knowability of the incarnational narrative, but these arguments have been negative in character, with the aim of showing only that it is possible to have knowledge of such a narrative.
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Epistemological Beliefs in Introductory Physics

Cognition and Instruction, 1994
Students' beliefs about knowledge and learning in a domain may have a significant effect on how they approach the material and on what they learn. This article describes a study of such epistemological beliefs in the context of an introductory physics course. I interviewed 6 students, meeting several times with each over one semester.
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Teacher's Ontological and Epistemological Beliefs

2020
This chapter involves a discussion of a case study to explore teachers' beliefs on the nature of reality (ontology) and knowledge (epistemology) within an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program at the International School of Amsterdam. The study is positioned within the constructivist-interpretive paradigm and allows for the emergence of a ...
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Teachers' Ontological and Epistemological Beliefs

London International Conference on Education (LICE-2022) and World Congress on Special Needs Education (WCE-2022), 2016
This chapter documents a case study of the exploration of teachers' beliefs on the nature of reality (ontology) and knowledge (epistemology) within an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program at the International School of Amsterdam. The study is positioned within the constructivist-interpretive paradigm and, therefore, allows for the emergence
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A Sociocultural Exploration of Epistemological Beliefs

2008
Recent research points to the centrality of epistemological knowledge in subject-matter learning and reasoning. However, our understanding of factors that might influence epistemological development is still fairly limited. In this chapter, we synthesize results from a series of cross-sectional studies in order to consider sociocultural perspectives of
Iris Tabak, Michael Weinstock
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Suspension of Belief and Epistemologies of Science

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2015
Epistemological disputes in the philosophy of science often focus on the question of how restrained or expansive one should be in interpreting our best scientific theories and models. For example, some empiricist philosophers countenance only belief in their observable content, while realists of different sorts extend belief (in incompatible ways ...
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The Distinctiveness of the Epistemology of Religious Belief

1999
To what extent is the epistemology of religious belief different from the epistemology of other areas of our belief and to what extent is it similar? The use of “to what extent?” is calculated. We cannot expect either exact sameness or complete difference. There will be at least some points of identity, for example terms of epistemic assessment such as
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The Epistemology of Belief

Choice Reviews Online, 2009
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Belief and Ameliorative Epistemology

2017
Philosophy
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