Evaluation is essential for research quality and development, but the diversity of traditions that characterize qualitative research suggests that general checklists or shared criteria for evaluation are problematic. We propose an approach to research evaluation that encourages reflexive dialogue through use of an evaluation agenda. In proposing an evaluation agenda we shift attention from rule...

When conflicts and disagreements cannot be resolved because there is no common ground, it might be better to replace the fight for ‘the truth’ by an exchange of arguments whose primary purpose is not to ‘win’ but to stimulate reflection, creativity, and perspective shifts. This is what I call “reflective argumentation” by contrast to three better known approaches to argument which Christoph Lum...

The impressive practical applications is one of the main reasons of success of Fuzzy Logic. The Computational Theory of Perceptions (CTP) is an extension of this theory that has not yet reached the same level of applicability. We believe that a review of the fundamentals of CTP from a epistemological perspective would provide useful insights to contribute to energize its development. This is a ...

Since the publication of Montgomery Furth’s groundbreaking 1967 essay, ‘Monadology’, discussions of Leibniz’s phenomenalism have been one of the main staples of Anglo-American Leibniz-scholarship. By no means, however, has any consensus been reached with regard to this issue. I think one important reason for this failure in agreement has to do with how one goes about understanding a related con...

Following government commitments to reducing health inequalities from 1997 onwards, the UK has been recognised as a global leader in health inequalities research and policy. Yet health inequalities have continued to widen by most measures, prompting calls for new research agendas and advocacy to facilitate greater public support for the upstream policies that evidence suggests are required. How...

In recent decades, digital activism has received a lot of scholarly and journalistic attention. Even so, there remains no firm consensus on its precise definition scope. This paper addresses this conceptual haziness contends that are analytical issues implications in the openness term description as digital, 'digitality' is neither sole nor primary feature along which changed. Drawing extant pr...

The current decolonial commitments in Higher Education necessitate a need to deepen our understanding of the relationship between English as Medium Instruction (EMI) and students’ sense belonging, their identity, epistemological access. This article investigates how EMI influences personal academic identities well belonging higher education space. Using student focus groups, this study is explo...

the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between epistemological and motivational beliefs about mathematics among gifted students. to this end , 334 first year high school gifted students were selected through applying the otis intelligence test. epistemological beliefs questionnaire (ebq) and motivational beliefs about mathematics scale (mbms) were also used as measurement inst...

Purpose – To show that the neo-pragmatist position of Richard Rorty, when combined with a sociocultural perspective, provides library and information science (LIS) with a forceful epistemological tool. Design/methodology/approach – Literature-based conceptual analysis of: historical development of pragmatism in relation to other epistemological positions; neo-pragmatism as a non-dualist, both p...

Utilizing data from a classroom intervention with 8 graders, I employ agent-based computer modeling to simulate the cognitive processes at play during the intervention, in which students transition between using multiple epistemological resources. The model substantiates the hypothesis of manifold epistemological resources, which can be activated with simple prompts and have a non-linear impact...