Abstract:At the intersection of scholarly literature on education psychology and early childhood education, documentation of pre-service teachers (PSTs) epistemic thinking can serve to clarify and guide how instructional practice is interpreted. This exploratory case study fills a critical gap in the field of epistemology by providing a profile of PSTs beliefs contextualized in a laboratory school supportive of inquiry-based methods for teaching and learning. Using qualitative content analysis, data compiled from inter… Show more
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