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Attia Noor – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Narrative inquiry is a type of qualitative research that explores human experiences through lived or told stories to understand a phenomenon. Narrative researchers collect data through spoken or written stories and life experiences of an individual (subject). The data is examined in chronological order to understand the meaning of the phenomenon…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Ethnography, Learning Processes, Epistemology
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McGarry, Karen – LEARNing Landscapes, 2019
Acting reflexively implies a "self-critical and self-conscious stance" (Glass, 2015, p. 555) of recognizing myself within a research process as an intentional participant-practitioner of generating knowledge. This article attempts to reveal visual evidence across a landscape of textual references and material implementations as a process…
Descriptors: Reflection, Praxis, Epistemology, Self Concept
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Rocío García-Carrión – Review of Research in Education, 2023
Transforming difficulties into opportunities for thriving is at the heart of this volume on the science of learning and development. This chapter brings the perspective of European research and the Global North and South and discusses some of the challenges included in the call to create the conditions for promoting sustainable and equitable…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Educational Resources, Developing Nations, Developed Nations
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Franco, Myra Suzanne – Education, 2019
For over 25 years, my lecture driven teaching strategies that included passive learning outcomes has prevailed in my K12 and higher education teaching. The requirement to help doctoral students identify and understand their epistemology, ontology and worldview within a research methods class created a dilemma regarding the appropriateness of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods
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Hernández-Hernández, Fernando; Sancho-Gil, Juana M. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2015
This paper builds on the history of Esbrina, an established research group in Spain with almost 20 years' experience and a deeply-rooted tradition of self-reflection and learning. We start by analysing the academic and social contexts in which the group was created and recognised. We make explicit team members' backgrounds, dispositions and…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Qualitative Research, Ethnography, Apprenticeships
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Jay, Tim – Educational Research Review, 2013
This article addresses the issue of the plurality of theories and perspectives in education research, and introduces postperspectival theory as a means to work with this plurality. Three pieces of research are discussed, all focusing on children's learning of numbers, one taking a cognitivist perspective, the other two a more sociocultural…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Sociocultural Patterns
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Meijer, Marie-Jeanne; Geijsel, Femke; Kuijpers, Marinka; Boei, Fer; Vrieling, Emmy – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Having a well-founded insight into the characteristics of teachers inquiry-based attitude (IA) supports operationalising IA as a learning goal in teacher education (TE). The aim of this study is to refine the notion of IA from an ill-defined global concept into something with reliable and valid characteristics. To do so, data were gathered on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Inquiry, Cohort Analysis
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Asterhan, Christa S. C.; Schwarz, Baruch B. – Educational Psychologist, 2016
There is increasing consensus among psycho-educational scholars about argumentation as a means to improve student knowledge and understanding of subject matter. In this article, we argue that, notwithstanding a strong theoretical rationale, causal evidence is not abundant, definitions of the objects of study (argumentation, learning) are often not…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Definitions, Research Methodology, Research Problems
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Hofer, Barbara K.; Sinatra, Gale M. – Metacognition and Learning, 2010
The contributors to this special issue explore the connections between metacognition and personal epistemology. This commentary on the five articles addresses definitional concerns regarding both epistemology and metacognition, discusses the conceptual relation between the constructs, critiques methodological approaches, and suggests developmental…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Epistemology, Definitions, Criticism
Parent, Nancy Brossard – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation provides a critical analysis of three informal science education partnerships that resulted from a 2003-2006 National Science Foundation grant titled, "Archaeology Pathways for Native Learners" (ESI-0307858), hosted by the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. This dissertation is designed to contribute to…
Descriptors: American Indians, Science Education, Archaeology, Partnerships in Education
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Alexander, Patricia, Ed.; Levine, Felice J., Ed.; Tate, William, Ed. – American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2016
The centennial volume of "Review of Research in Education" ("RRE") takes a "retrospective, prospective" approach on a diverse range of education research topics spanning the last 100 years. While using historical trends as foundations for their chapters, the authors also look ahead to the most challenging issues and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational History, Educational Trends, Research Methodology
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Maivorsdotter, Ninitha; Wickman, Per-Olof – Sport, Education and Society, 2011
The purpose of this article is to suggest and illustrate a methodological approach for studies of learning in physical education (PE) and sport pedagogy in order to investigate and clarify the relation between how people learn and the settings or context in which they learn. Drawing on the work of John Dewey, the later works of Ludwig Wittgenstein…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Epistemology, Aesthetics
Levine, Thomas H. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2010
Teacher educators need tools to help them think about teacher learning, to design activities and programs that foster it, and to assess the results of their work with preservice and in-service teachers. In this article, in order to improve the conceptual tools available for the design and study of teacher education, the author teases apart…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Educators, Educational Research, Research Methodology
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Su, Ya-Hui – Studies in Continuing Education, 2007
This paper considers the bottom-up vision of the learning society. Unlike the top-down approach, the bottom-up approach does not start by specifying the purposes of learning which should direct the development of the learning society, but from observing interactions among learning individuals as agents. While in the relevant literature and…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Active Learning, Synthesis, Holistic Evaluation
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Schommer-Aikins, Marlene – Educational Psychologist, 2004
The purpose of this article is to describe the basic paradigm of the epistemological belief system and to offer new ideas about the conception and study of personal epistemology, namely an embedded systemic model and coordinated teams approach to research. The epistemological belief system approach to personal epistemology is distinguished from…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Models, Beliefs, Research Methodology
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