Personal epistemology across cultures: Exploring Norwegian and Spanish university students' epistemic beliefs about climate change

Social Psychology of Education

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 529-560

  Bråten, Ivar ^a   Gil, Laura ^b   Strømsø, Helge I ^a   Vidal Abarca, Eduardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cross cultural research; Personal epistemology; Topic interest; Topic knowledge; Topic specific epistemic beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349106913     PISSN: 13812890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11218-009-9097-z     Document Type: Article

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