Personal Epistemology: The Psychology of Beliefs About Knowledge and Knowing

914 Pages·2001·2.69 MB·English

by  Barbara K. Hofer, Paul R. Pintrich

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Personal Epistemology : The Psychology of
title:
Beliefs About Knowledge and Knowing
author: Hofer, Barbara K.; Pintrich, Paul R.
publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
isbn10 | asin: 0805835180
print isbn13: 9780805835182
ebook isbn13: 9780585385167
language: English
Educational psychology, Knowledge,
subject
Theory of.
publication date: 2002
lcc: LB1051.P415 2002eb
ddc: 370.15
Educational psychology, Knowledge,
subject:
Theory of.
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Personal Epistemology:
The Psychology of Beliefs
About Knowledge and Knowing
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Personal Epistemology:
The Psychology of Beliefs
About Knowledge and Knowing
Edited by
Barbara K. Hofer
Middlebury College
and
Paul R. Pintrich
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Personal epistemology: the psychology of beliefs about knowledge and
knowing/ edited
by Barabara K. Hofer and Paul R. Pintrich.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8058-3518-0 (alk. paper)
1. Educational psychology. 2. Knowledge, Theory of. I. Hofer, Barbara
K. II. Pintrich,
Paul R.
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About the Editors
Barbara K. Hofer is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Middlebury
College in Middlebury, Vermont. She received an Ed.M. from the Harvard
Graduate School of Education and a Ph.D. from the University of
Michigan in Education and Psychology. She is the recipient of the
American Psychological Association’ McKeachie Early Teaching Award
and the American Educational Research Associotion’ Research Review
Award (with co-editor, Paul Pintrich) for a review of the literature on
epistemological thinking. She has published a dozen articles and book
chapters on personal epistemology, self-regulated learning, and cross-
cultural issues in education, and is a regular presenter at APA and AERA.
Paul R. Pintrich is Professor of Education and Psychology and Chair of
the Combined Program in Education and Psychology at The University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also serves as the Associate Dean for Research
for the School of Education at Michigan. His research focuses on the
development of motivation, epistemological thinking, and self-regulated
learning in adolescence. He has published over 100 articles, book
chapters and books including co-authoring or co-editing 8 books. He is
the past editor of the American Psychology Association journal for
Division 15-Educational Psychology, Educational Psychologist
His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation
(NSF), the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) in
the Department of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and the Kellogg
Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association
and has been a National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow. Along
with his co-author Barbara Hofer, he won the 1999 Best Research
Review Article Award from the American Educational Research
Association for an article on epistemological thinking that appeared in
Review of Educational Research. He is currently President-Elect of
Division 5-Educational and Instructional Psychology for the International
Association of Applied Psychology and President-Elect for Division 15-
Educational Psychology for the American Psychological Association. He
also has won the Class of 1923 Award from the College of Literature,
Science, and Arts and the School of Education at The University of
Michigan for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
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Contents
Preface xi
Introduction 1
1 Personal Epistemology as a Psychological and Educational
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Construct: An Introduction
Barbara K. Hofer
I Conceptual Models of Personal Epistemology 15
2 Understanding Learning in a Postmodern World:
Reconsidering the Perry Scheme of Ethical 17
and Intellectual Development
William S. Moore
3 The Reflective Judgment Model: Twenty Years
37
of Research on Epistemic Cognition
Patricia M. King and Karen Strohm Kitchener
4 Revisiting Women’s Ways of Knowing 63
Blythe McVicker Clinchy
5 Epistemological Reflection: The Evolution
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of Epistemological Assumptions from Age 18 to 30
Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
6 An Evolving Theoretical Framework for