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ERIC Number: EJ632832
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1356-2517
Changing Epistemological Beliefs in Pre-Service Teacher Education Students.
Brownlee, Joanne; Purdie, Nola; Boulton-Lewis, Gillian
Teaching in Higher Education, v6 n2 p247-68 Apr 2001
Evaluated a teaching program designed to foster reflection on and development of more sophisticated epistemological beliefs among pre-service graduate teacher education students at Queensland University of Technology. Students reflected in journals on the content of an educational psychology unit in relation to their epistemological beliefs. Compared to a control group, students showed more growth in sophisticated epistemological beliefs. (Contains 3 Tables, 54 References, and 2 Appendexes.)(EV)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Change, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Journal Writing, Preservice Teachers, Program Evaluation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Queensland University of Technology (Australia)