Links Between Beliefs and Cognitive Flexibility Lessons Learned /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Elen, Jan (Editor), Stahl, Elmar (Editor), Bromme, Rainer (Editor), Clarebout, Geraldine (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Education.; Epistemology.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Educational Psychology.; Pedagogic Psychology.

With the world and its structures becoming ever more complex, and the nature of future employment becoming ever more unpredictable, the notion of ‘cognitive flexibility’ has a high profile in educational and psychological debate. The contributions in this volume analyze the nature of cognitive flexi...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1   Personal Epistemology: Nomenclature, Conceptualizations, and Measurement, Jeremy Briell, Jan Elen, Lieven Verschaffel, Geraldine Clarebout
• Chapter 2   The Generative Nature of Epistemological Judgments: Focusing on Interactions Instead of Elements to Understand the Relationship between Epistemological Beliefs and Cognitive Flexibility, Elmar Stahl
• Chapter 3     Spontaneous Cognitive Flexibility and an Encompassing System of Epistemological Beliefs, Marlene Schommer-Aikins
• Chapter 4   Personal Epistemology and Philosophical Epistemology The View of a Philosopher, Richard F. Kitchener
• Chapter 5: Beliefs about Abilities and Epistemic Beliefs Aspects of Cognitive Flexibility in Information-Rich Environments, Dorothe Kienhues, Rainer Bromme
• Chapter 6 Cognitive Flexibility and Epistemic Validation in Learning from Multiple Texts, Tobias Richter.- Chapter 7 Development of Cognitive Flexibility and Epistemological Understanding in Argumentation, Beate Sodian, Petra Barchfeld
• Chapter 8 Medical Trainees’ Epistemological Beliefs and Their Cognitive Flexibility, Ann Roex, Jan Degryse, Geraldine Clarebout
• Chapter 9 Analysing and Developing Strategy Flexibility in Mathematics Education, Lieven Verschaffel, Koen Luwel, Joke Torbeyns, Wim Van Dooren
• Chapter 10 Conclusion, Geraldine Clarebout, Rainer Bromme, Elmar Stahl, Jan Elen.