Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This current study aims at inquiring into and discovering the epistemic beliefs of \nlecturers working at Educational Administration Departments through qualitative \nmethods. The adopted research design is descriptive phenomenology and data \ncollection tool is comprised of semi-structured questions posed throughout one-onone and face to face interviews to the relevant participants. These participants are 29 \nlecturers working at Educational Administration Departments in 3 state universities in \nAnkara during the first term of 2018-19 Academic Year. The results indicate that \nparticipants hold unique epistemic beliefs pertaining to the very field and that this is \nvalid for their evaluations of possibility of knowledge, truth of knowledge, justifying \nknowledge and boundaries of knowledge regarding the field. In addition, it is \nobserved that participants’ unique epistemic beliefs in relation to the knowledge of \nthe field bear certain commonalities as well.
Author: Ayyıldız, Pınar
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7056063757