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Epistemological Foundations for Science Education
According to many authors, scientific education promotes new ways of reasoning that should have an important epistemological component. Chapter...
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First-Year Teacher Education Students’ Epistemological Beliefs About Science and History: Domain-Specific Profiles and Relationships
This study investigates the developmental levels of epistemological beliefs (EBs) about science and history among first-year teacher trainees ( n = 146...
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Effectiveness of Argument-Based Inquiry Approach on Grade 8 Students’ Science Content Achievement, Metacognition, and Epistemological Beliefs
The quasi-experimental, two-group (treatment and comparison), pretest–posttest study of metacognition, epistemological beliefs, and science content...
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This is not a research article: an invitation to mobilize knowledge from the epistemological borderlands of social science
In this article, the authors engage with Anzaldua’s (Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Aunt Lute Books, 1987) notion of borderlands while...
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Epistemological dimensions of integrating critical global citizenship in teacher education: A case for a holistic approach to GCE through the Body, Mind, and Soul
Drawing upon a five-year critical reflexive autoethnographic study, this article proposes that student comprehension of critical global citizenship...
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Reading an Islamic epistemology into research: Muslim converts and contemporary religion in Britain
This paper presents a tentative argument for the application of a unique methodological approach in researching convert Muslims in contemporary...
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Epistemological treatment of design in technology education
Design as a construct has multiple meanings depending on context, function, and agenda. This paper proposes to set out functions of design as it...
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Contemporary meaning of caste discrimination in Indian universities: a constructivist grounded theory
In Indian society, caste is assigned to us before birth. Caste positions individuals in a social, economic, and political hierarchy. This study...
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Curricular justice and contemporary schooling: Towards a rich, common curriculum for all students
Despite the commitment by governments and educational leaders to high-quality and high-equity systems, the defining features of contemporary...
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A Virtue Epistemological Approach to the Demarcation Problem
We argue for a virtue epistemological approach to the demarcation problem, for we think that such an approach makes sense from the perspective of an...
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Will Anything Change? Examining Historically White Fraternity Members’ Development of Openness to Diversity in Contemporary Times
Scholars have identified that openness to diversity is a vital student outcome for higher education. Interest in this outcome has only intensified in...
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Psychological modeling of preservice science teachers’ argumentativeness, achievement goals, and epistemological beliefs: a mixed design
This study was conducted to investigate the relationships among Turkish preservice science teachers’ argumentativeness, epistemological beliefs, and...
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Contemporary Science Research and Climate Change Education
The pressures of the Anthropocene, including a rising tide of student activism around climate change (White et al., Agency on the Anthropocene....
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How transparent are quantitative studies in contemporary technology education research? Instrument development and analysis
Transparency in the reporting of empirical studies is foundational to a credible knowledge base. Higher levels of transparency, in addition to...
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Against the Spell of Modern Knowledge: Education as Multiplicity or the Need for Focused Arbitrariness
Calvino’s apology of multiplicity starts with the exposure, revealed by his take on typically modern novels, of some fundamental contradictions...
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The Theory of Mathematical Working Spaces: Theoretical Environment, Epistemological Stance and Dialogue with Other Theories
This chapter is dedicated to situating the theory of MWS and addressing its dialogue with other theories in mathematics education research. After...
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Contemporary Agendas and Shifts in the Global Governance of Education
This concluding chapter reiterates and ties together the key arguments from the previous chapters and expands our main findings by relating them to...
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Examining Contemporary Diplomacy: Changes and Challenges
This chapter analyses the evolution from traditional to contemporary diplomacy by examining the different ways that international relations scholars...
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Decolonization and Higher Education: A Critical Review of a Contemporary Concern, Policy and Theory
Decolonization of higher education policy and practice has become an increasing concern and interest in recent years. This article provides a...
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Teaching Sami Pasts and Presents: Complexities in Teaching Practice in Contemporary Swedish Classrooms
Today, there are several ongoing processes in Sweden that affect education, pedagogy and the teaching of history and civics with regard to the five...