Education S Epistemology

Author : Harvey Siegel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190682675

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Education's Epistemology by Harvey Siegel Pdf

Education's Epistemology extends and further defends Harvey Siegel's "reasons conception" of critical thinking. It analyzes and emphasizes both the epistemic quality, and the dispositions and character traits that constitute the "critical spirit," that are central to a proper account of critical thinking; argues that that epistemic quality must be understood ultimately in terms of epistemic rationality; defends a conception of rationality that involves both rules and judgment; and argues that critical thinking has normative value over and above its instrumental tie to truth. Siegel also argues, contrary to currently popular multiculturalist thought, for both transcultural and universal philosophical ideals, including those of multiculturalism and critical thinking themselves.

Author : Roger S. Taylor,Michel Ferrari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136885990

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Epistemology and Science Education by Roger S. Taylor,Michel Ferrari Pdf

How is epistemology related to the issue of teaching science and evolution in the schools? Addressing a flashpoint issue in our schools today, this book explores core epistemological differences between proponents of intelligent design and evolutionary scientists, as well as the critical role of epistemological beliefs in learning science. Preeminent scholars in these areas report empirical research and/or make a theoretical contribution, with a particular emphasis on the controversy over whether intelligent design deserves to be considered a science alongside Darwinian evolution. This pioneering book coordinates and provides a complete picture of the intersections in the study of evolution, epistemology, and science education, in order to allow a deeper understanding of the intelligent design vs. evolution controversy. This is a very timely book for teachers and policy makers who are wrestling with issues of how to teach biology and evolution within a cultural context in which intelligent design has been and is likely to remain a challenge for the foreseeable future.

Author : A. W Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995269238

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Teaching in a Digital Age by A. W Bates Pdf

Author : Harvey Siegel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190682682

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Education's Epistemology by Harvey Siegel Pdf

Education's Epistemology extends and further defends Harvey Siegel's "reasons conception" of critical thinking. It analyzes and emphasizes both the epistemic quality, and the dispositions and character traits that constitute the "critical spirit," that are central to a proper account of critical thinking; argues that that epistemic quality must be understood ultimately in terms of epistemic rationality; defends a conception of rationality that involves both rules and judgment; and argues that critical thinking has normative value over and above its instrumental tie to truth. Siegel also argues, contrary to currently popular multiculturalist thought, for both transcultural and universal philosophical ideals, including those of multiculturalism and critical thinking themselves.

Author : Claudia W. Ruitenberg,D.C. Phillips
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9400720661

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Education, Culture and Epistemological Diversity by Claudia W. Ruitenberg,D.C. Phillips Pdf

In the recent educational research literature, it has been asserted that ethnic or cultural groups have their own distinctive epistemologies, and that these have been given short shrift by the dominant social group. Educational research, then, is pursued within a framework that embodies assumptions about knowledge and knowledge production that reflect the interests and historical traditions of this dominant group. In such arguments, however, some relevant philosophical issues remain unresolved, such as what claims about culturally distinctive epistemologies mean, precisely, and how they relate to traditional epistemological distinctions between beliefs and knowledge. Furthermore, can these ways of establishing knowledge stand up to critical scrutiny? This volume marshals a variety of resources to pursue such open questions in a lively and accessible way: a critical literature review, analyses from philosophers of education who have different positions on the key issues, a roundtable discussion, and interactions between the two editors, who sometimes disagree. It also employs the work of prominent feminist epistemologists who have investigated parallel issues with sophistication. This volume does not settle the question of culturally distinctive epistemologies, but teases out the various philosophical, sociological and political aspects of the issue so that the debate can continue with greater clarity.

Author : Jo Brownlee,Gregory J. Schraw,Donna Berthelsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415883566

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Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education by Jo Brownlee,Gregory J. Schraw,Donna Berthelsen Pdf

This edited volume examines the role of personal epistemology in teaching across early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary contexts, and the implications for teacher education, incorporating the most up-to-date research and theorising in the field.

Author : Thomas Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000497281

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Epistemology and the Predicates of Education by Thomas Peterson Pdf

Exploring the predicates of education from theoretical, practical and historical perspectives, this book revalorizes the central role of the humanities in the ethical and aesthetic formation of the individual. This book considers timely questions of process and epistemology in today’s academy. It examines the subject of learning as it arises in the individual, is defined by educators, and is conceived by society at large. In attempting to formulate a lingua franca for contemporary pedagogy, the book highlights the concrete activities of educators and students and the qualities that emerge in the educational process. By synthesizing the writings of educational theorists working in different fields—philosophy, psychology, anthropology and more—Epistemology and the Predicates of Education highlights the transformational nature of knowledge and its capacity to invigorate the student through the practice of self-inquiry. The analytical and focused research offered in Epistemology and the Predicates of Education will be of interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of philosophy of education and higher education.

Author : Hugh G. Petrie
Publisher : Living Control Systems Publ
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781938090066

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Ways of Learning and Knowing by Hugh G. Petrie Pdf

Hugh Petrie, the author of the chapters in this anthology, spent his entire professional life as a philosopher, philosopher of education, and educational administrator fascinated by the questions of how we learn and how we know what we learn. The chapters in this anthology are selected from the articles and book chapters he published during his career. They include critiques of behaviorism and its supposed relevance to educational practice, analyses of the issues involved with interdisciplinary education, the nature of conceptual change, the role of metaphor as an essential component in learning anything radically new, a thorough-going examination of current educational testing dogma, and several discussions of the importance of ways of knowing for various educational policy issues. The works are informed throughout by the insights of evolutionary epistemology and Perceptual Control Theory. These two under-appreciated approaches show how an adaptation of thought and action to the demands of the natural and social world explain how learning and coming to know are possible. These insights are as relevant today as they were when the chapters were first written.

Author : Jason Baehr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317500063

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Intellectual Virtues and Education by Jason Baehr Pdf

With its focus on intellectual virtues and their role in the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and related epistemic goods, virtue epistemology provides a rich set of tools for educational theory and practice. In particular, characteristics under the rubric of "responsibilist" virtue epistemology, like curiosity, open-mindedness, attentiveness, intellectual courage, and intellectual tenacity, can help educators and students define and attain certain worthy but nebulous educational goals like a love of learning, lifelong learning, and critical thinking. This volume is devoted to exploring the intersection between virtue epistemology and education. It assembles leading virtue epistemologists and philosophers of education to address such questions as: Which virtues are most essential to education? How exactly should these virtues be understood? How is the goal of intellectual character growth related to other educational goals, for example, to critical thinking and knowledge-acquisition? What are the "best practices" for achieving this goal? Can growth in intellectual virtues be measured? The chapters are a prime example of "applied epistemology" and promise to be a seminal contribution to an area of research that is rapidly gaining attention within epistemology and beyond.

Author : David Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134027330

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Education, Epistemology and Critical Realism by David Scott Pdf

This book addresses fundamental questions in relation to education and its epistemology. The position taken by the author is critical realist; and thus throughout the relationship between education and critical realism is foregrounded. Themes and issues that surface at different times in the book are: a critical realist view of education research; a resolution of the quantitative/qualitative divide; criteria for judging the worth of educational texts and practices; differences between scientific and critical realisms; empirical research methods in education; structure-agency relationships; pragmatist views of educational research; foundations and paradigmatic differences; and educational critique and transformation.

Author : Emiliano Grimaldi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351337809

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An Archaeology of Educational Evaluation by Emiliano Grimaldi Pdf

An Archaeology of Educational Evaluation: Epistemological Spaces and Political Paradoxes outlines the epistemology of the theories and models that are currently employed to evaluate educational systems, education policy, educational professionals and students learning. It discusses how those theories and models find their epistemological conditions of possibility in a specific set of conceptual transferences from mathematics and statistics, political economy, biology and the study of language. The book critically engages with the epistemic dimension of contemporary educational evaluation and is of theoretical and methodological interest. It uses Foucauldian archaeology as a problematising method of inquiry within the wider framework of governmentality studies. It goes beyond a mere critique of the contemporary obsession for evaluation and attempts to replace it with the opening of a free space where the search for a mode of being, acting and thinking in education is not over-determined by the tyranny of improvement. This book will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of educational philosophy, education policy and social science.

Author : Lina Markauskaite,Peter Goodyear
Publisher : Springer
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400743694

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Epistemic Fluency and Professional Education by Lina Markauskaite,Peter Goodyear Pdf

This book, by combining sociocultural, material, cognitive and embodied perspectives on human knowing, offers a new and powerful conceptualisation of epistemic fluency – a capacity that underpins knowledgeable professional action and innovation. Using results from empirical studies of professional education programs, the book sheds light on practical ways in which the development of epistemic fluency can be recognised and supported - in higher education and in the transition to work. The book provides a broader and deeper conception of epistemic fluency than previously available in the literature. Epistemic fluency involves a set of capabilities that allow people to recognize and participate in different ways of knowing. Such people are adept at combining different kinds of specialised and context-dependent knowledge and at reconfiguring their work environment to see problems and solutions anew. In practical terms, the book addresses the following kinds of questions. What does it take to be a productive member of a multidisciplinary team working on a complex problem? What enables a person to integrate different types and fields of knowledge, indeed different ways of knowing, in order to make some well-founded decisions and take actions in the world? What personal knowledge resources are entailed in analysing a problem and describing an innovative solution, such that the innovation can be shared in an organization or professional community? How do people get better at these things; and how can teachers in higher education help students develop these valued capacities? The answers to these questions are central to a thorough understanding of what it means to become an effective knowledge worker and resourceful professional.

Author : Lisa D. Bendixen,Florian C. Feucht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521883559

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Personal Epistemology in the Classroom by Lisa D. Bendixen,Florian C. Feucht Pdf

This book presents theoretical and empirical work pertaining to personal epistemology in the classroom and consider its broader educational implications.

Author : Paul Ernest
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136364723

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Constructing Mathematical Knowledge by Paul Ernest Pdf

First published in 1994. This book and its companion volume, Mathematics, Education and Philosophy: An International Perspective are edited collections. Instead of the sharply focused concerns of the research monograph, the books offer a panorama of complementary and forward-looking perspectives. They illustrate the breadth of theoretical and philosophical perspectives that can fruitfully be brough to bear on the mathematics and education. The empathise of this book is on epistemological issues, encompassing multiple perspectives on the learning of mathematics, as well as broader philosophical reflections on the genesis of knowledge. It explores constructivist and social theories of learning and discusses the rile of the computer in light of these theories.

Author : Andrew Skourdoumbis,Scott Webster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000807950

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The Epistemological Development of Education by Andrew Skourdoumbis,Scott Webster Pdf

This book documents the political and economic ramifications of the policy impetus for a "science of education" and what this means for classroom teachers, their teaching practices and for the field of education. In a critical exploration of current research and policy articulations of the purposes of education, with attention given to Australia, the UK and the USA, this book delineates the evaluative mechanisms involved in the strategic science as method adoption of accountability, competitiveness and test-driven criteria used in major education policy. It brings together the disciplines of sociology and philosophy by drawing on the theoretical insights of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu and John Dewey. In addition, the book argues for the deliberate use of the theoretical in education and is against the contemporary unquestioning advocacy that often accompanies a narrowly defined master narrative of a science of education. This book will be of special interest to post-graduate students as source material in general education courses and is also intended for academics with an interest in educational theory/philosophy and the sociology of education.