Folk epistemology: An introduction

By R. Kitchener. 2002

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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Adolescents' self‐attributed moral emotions following a moral transgression: Relations with delinquency, confidence in moral judgment and age (2006, background): “development (for an overview see Hofer & Pintrich, 1997; Kitchener, 2002; Moshman, 2005): In an early period of development, knowledge, in general, is understood as a direct copy of external reality.”
When law students read multiple documents about global warming: examining the role of topic-specific beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing (2010, background): “Personal epistemology refers to beliefs that individuals hold about knowledge and knowing, that is, epistemic beliefs (Hofer and Pintrich 1997; Kitchener 2002).”
Epistemological Understanding as a Metacognitive Process: Thinking Aloud During Online Searching (2004, background): “Philosopher R. Kitchener (2002) pointed out that just as epistemology is a theory of knowledge, personal epistemology (or folk epistemology) is a personal theory about knowledge (the epistemic), and epistemic beliefs are beliefs about knowledge.”
Addressing Challenges to Public Understanding of Science: Epistemic Cognition, Motivated Reasoning, and Conceptual Change (2014, methodology): “This claim stands on the shoulders of a body of research that addresses the development and change of epistemic cognition (King & Kitchener, 2002; D. Kuhn, Cheney, & Weinstock, 2000; Schommer, 1990; Schraw, Bendixen, & Dunkle, 2002).”
Epistemic beliefs and prior knowledge as predictors of the construction of different types of arguments on socioscientific issues (2020, background): “According to Kitchener (2002), “epistemology” is a theory of knowledge and how it develops, while “personal epistemology” is a personal theory about developing knowledge.”
An Integrative Approach to Personal Epistemology: A Guiding Model (2004, background): “…may, several researchers in the field have pointed out that we are not very explicit in regard to the actual process of epistemological development, especially when it pertains to the underlying mechanism accounting for change (Bendixen, 2002; Burr & Hofer, 2002; R. Kitchener, 2002; Schraw, 2001).”
Reflective Judgment: Theory and Research on the Development of Epistemic Assumptions Through Adulthood (2004, background): “Since the publication of that volume, Wood (1997) has completed a comprehensive secondary analysis of these data, and an updated literature review was published (King & Kitchener, 2002).”
Personal Epistemology and Culture (2008, methodology): “I am using the term “epistemic” to modify beliefs, as these are beliefs about knowledge and knowing (the epistemic), not beliefs about epistemology (R. F. Kitchener, 2002 ).”
Theory-of-Mind Development: Retrospect and Prospect (2004, background): “”), and that scientific and other advanced forms of reasoning and knowledge acquisition have special rules (Kitchener, 2002; Kuhn, 2000; Moshman, 1998).”
Modeling Epistemic and Ontological Cognition: Philosophical Perspectives and Methodological Directions (2008, methodology): “Perry’s (1970) original conceptualization of dualism, multiplism, relativism, and commitment in relativism positions has generally been mirrored by other models including King and Kitchener’s (2004) pre-, quasi-, and reflective judgment stages and Kuhn’s (Kuhn & Weinstock, 2002) absolutist, multipli”