Epistemological Format ofPedagogical Science and Evidence-based Pedagogy

Expanding Evidence-based Pedagogy with Design Heuristics

Expanding Evidence-based Pedagogy with Design Heuristics Creative thinking during concept generation has been identified as a key source of successful innovations; thus, techniques to support creative conceptual design are imperative in engineering education. However, teaching students to “think in novatively” has been difficult for many educators, often because of a lack of effective instructi...

On Epistemological Pluralism in Design Science

Design Science is an old hat, but why is a debate on design science in today's IS research so necessary? Here, I would like to make an argument from my personal perspective, reflecting the German research tradition, which is—in great parts—strongly oriented towards design science research (Niehaves 2006). What Iivari (2007) mentioned holds true in this case as well: Nobody uses the term design ...

SYMPOSIUM ON EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE Current epistemological problems in evidence based medicine

Evidence based medicine has been a topic of considerable controversy in medical and health care circles over its short lifetime, because of the claims made by its exponents about the criteria used to assess the evidence for or against the effectiveness of medical interventions. The central epistemological debates underpinning the debates about evidence based medicine are reviewed by this paper,...

Body Matters – Innovative Epistemological Approaches to Scientific and Practical Knowledge in Pedagogy

Sustainable development: epistemological challenges to science and technology

The present condition of the planet seems to be characterized by massive and deep changes spanning the local to the global scales, in its human and ecological components: on the one hand, the world now is moving through a period of extraordinary turbulence reflecting the genesis and intensification of deep economic, social, political, and cultural changes associated to the current techno-econom...