Cross-cultural research is marked by adopting one of two dominant epistemological paradigms: positivism or constructivism. By discussing strengths/weaknesses inherent in each paradigm, this paper argues that rather than contradictory and incommensurable; positivism and constructivism can be considered complementary epistemological orientations which correspond to two conceptual levels of cultur...

Translanguaging and plurilingual approaches in English Language Education (ELE) have been important for envisaging more equitable language education. However, the languages implemented translanguaging or classrooms predominantly reflect knowledge belief systems of dominant, nation-state, “official”, and/or colonial as opposed to those endangered Indigenous languages. This paper contends that pr...

Epistemological holism is usually associated with linguistic holism, and sometimes the latter is inferred from the former. In this chapter I shall show how the view that the sense of a sentence be its immediate argumental role, though it conforms to the requirement of compositionality and hence involves a denial of linguistic holism, is perfectly compatible with epistemological holism. Thus, by...

This explorative pilot-study investigated the relationship between epistemological beliefs, prior knowledge and selfregulated learning with a hierarchical hypertext. Students who varied in their epistemological beliefs and prior knowledge learned about the topic of genetic fingerprinting. Logfiles and questionnaire data were collected. Results indicate that both epistemological beliefs and prio...

Epistemological beliefs are those concerning the nature of knowledge and learning: beliefs about how individuals come to know, and how knowledge is constructed. There is growing evidence in the literature that indicates epistemological beliefs influence students learning, but little research as to how learning environments impact on students’ epistemological beliefs, and hence students’ approac...

School epistemological belief is essential as it directly influences the goal and center of education. Following this logic, Christian education ideally aims to guide students knowledge God epistemology believes that source knowledge. However, in teaching learning practices, teachers may be unaware world’s modern philosophy thus unconsciously adopt practices from educational approach. As a resu...

It is commonly held that knowledge is of distinctive value to us. The goal of this paper is to unpack and examine a possible defence of this claima defence which is at least implicit in recent work by some virtue epistemologiststo the effect that knowledge is distinctively valuable because, qua cognitive achievement, it has final value. 1. THE VALUE PROBLEM It is widely thought that knowledge...

Delusional people are people saying very bizarre things like they are dead, their spouse is a robot, the TV star is talking to them, they are possessed by the devil, aliens are following them, and so on. Even though we know that they are not identical, terms like “delusion” and “mental illness” are often used as synonyms in ordinary language. This comes from what psychopathology tradition hande...

A notion that comes from the toolbox of social sciences, trust has become a mainstream epistemological concept in last 15 years. The epistemic been distinguished moral and trust, former involves kinds inferences about others are rationally justifiable. If I scientist efficacy vaccine against COVID-19, must have an justification. am therefore justified trusting her because reason to justify my b...