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Intersecting Epistemologies: First-Year Students' Knowledge Discourses in a Political Science Module
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Direct linkNiven, Penelope – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
This paper identifies the epistemological values of novice students and their lecturers in terms of a "farming" metaphor. It argues that each occupy essentially different kinds of epistemological "farms", involving different "crops" and "methods", and lecturers often fail to provide effective access to their…
Descriptors: Political Science, Figurative Language, Learning Modules, Epistemology
