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Brownlee, Joanne; Purdie, Nola; Boulton-Lewis, Gillian – Teaching in Higher Education, 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.…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Change, Epistemology, Foreign Countries
Pillay, Hitendra; Boulton-Lewis, Gillian; Lankshear, Colin – Australian and New Zealand Journal of Vocational Education Research, 2002
A survey of 40 workers over age 40 found four conceptions of work: as a job, as a challenging experience, as personally empowering, and as structuring one's life. In spite of large investments in skills training, these workers' beliefs do not appear to be in line with the assumptions underlying new work practices. (SK)
Descriptors: Adults (30 to 45), Change, Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries