Thinking and knowing about knowledge: A plea for and critical remarks on psychological research programs on epistemological beliefs

Activity and Sign: Grounding Mathematics Education

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 191-201

  Bromme, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

certainty of knowledge; division of cognitive labor; domain dependency; dualism; epistemological belief; learning; measuring beliefs; relativism; simplicity of knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750347162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-24270-8_17     Document Type: Chapter

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