Investigation Children’s Epistemological Views
Abstract
Abstract: Epistemology can be defined the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge. It can be seen that large part of previously epistemology studies carried out with students come from elementary schools, high schools and universities. Therefore, measuring of preschool children’s epistemological views by help of the applied epistemological activities set to provide important contributions to the literature. From this point of view, the purpose of the research is to examine the preschool children’s epistemological thoughts. Descriptive survey and quantitative methods are used in this study. Set of Epistemological Activities (SEA) and the Epistemological Views Scale for Children (EVSC) were used as a research tools for collecting data. The study was carried out with 141 children (73 girls and 68 boys) from 3 state preschools. The total EVSC score is 56.58 and their scale interval score of 2.26 showed that they tended towards dogmatic philosophical thought. On the other side, border of sceptical thoughts in the scale interval is 2.34 and also children have sceptical thoughts at subscale of change of the knowledge and reasoning interpreted as children close to sceptical philosophical thought.
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Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Gökhan Güneş
Hakkari Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, İlköğretim Bölümü, Okul Öncesi Öğretmenliği Anabilim Dalı
Türkiye
Publication Date
April 3, 2017
Submission Date
October 31, 2016
Acceptance Date
February 5, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2017 Volume: 14 Number: 1