Participation in Biology Education Research Influences Students’ Epistemic Development
Author(s) -
Dennis Lee,
Mallory Wright,
Courtney Faber,
Cazembe Kennedy,
Dylan Dittrich-Reed
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cbe—life sciences education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1931-7913
DOI - 10.1187/cbe.20-11-0255
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , construct (python library) , context (archaeology) , science education , sociology of scientific knowledge , sociology , epistemology , educational research , nature of science , engineering ethics , pedagogy , mathematics education , psychology , computer science , social science , paleontology , philosophy , engineering , biology , programming language
Science epistemology is the foundation of how biology constructs knowledge but is often implicit in undergraduate research experiences (UREs). This study describes the development of one student’s ideas about scientific knowledge in a URE in which science epistemology was explicitly discussed in meetings and written reflections.
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