Neida Neto Vicente Ramos, Inês Fronteira, Maria Rosário Oliveira Martins
Building a Health Literacy Indicator from Angola Demographic and Health Survey in 2015/2016
International journal of environmental research and public health
abstract among researchers study students epistemologies consensus emerged constitutes sophisticated stance toward scientific knowledge according community consensus students understand scientific knowledge tentative evolving rather certain unchanging subjectively tied scientists perspectives rather objectively inherent nature individually socially constructed rather discovered surveys interview protocols methods used probe students beliefs scientific knowledge broadly reflect outlook article questions community consensus epistemological sophistication suggest scientific knowledge objective fixed forced choose whether knowledge certain tentative opportunity elaborate would choose tentative instead critique consists two lines argument first literature fails distinguish correctness productivity epistemological belief instance elementary school students believe science discovering objective truths questions whether earth round flat whether asteroid led extinction dinosaurs may likely succeed science students believe science telling stories vary ones perspective nave realism although incorrect according broad consensus philosophers social scientists may nonetheless productive helping students learn second according consensus view reflected commonly used surveys epistemological sophistication consists believing certain blanket generalizations nature knowledge learning generalizations attend context generalizations neither correct productive example would unsophisticated students view tentative idea earth round rather flat contrast take tentative stance toward theories mass extinction nonetheless many surveys interview protocols tally students sophisticated attending contextual nuances subscribing broadly view knowledge tentative 2001 john wiley amp sons inc sci ed 85 554567 2001