Sentence examples for subject matter of knowledge from inspiring English sources

In the historical development of realism, arguably the most important strains of antirealism have been varieties of empiricism which, given their emphasis on experience as a source and subject matter of knowledge, are naturally set against the idea of knowledge of unobservables.

In each of these theories the possibility of a priori knowledge is explained by a suggestion that we have a privileged opportunity for studying the subject matter of such knowledge.

Assessment of teachers' professional knowledge and skills often is based on Shulman's (1986) description of teacher knowledge, which comprises general pedagogical knowledge, subject matter knowledge, curricular knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK).

In Germany, teacher education encompasses 3.5 to 5 years of higher education and puts emphasis on the development of professional knowledge (subject matter knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and pedagogical knowledge).

There has to be enough common knowledge around the subject matter of the litigation," says Atlas' partner, Lynch.

By entertaining a consistent mathematical theory, a mathematician automatically acquires knowledge about the subject matter of the theory.

Of themselves, sensations do not constitute knowledge but, when felt in the human subject, provide the matter of knowledge which determines the idea of being, that is, the form of knowledge.

The study analyzes mechanisms in which CL contributes to the development of teacher knowledge of three kinds: subject matter knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and curricular content knowledge.

In 1910, the educator and philosopher John Dewey noted that "science teaching has suffered because science has been so frequently presented just as so much ready-made knowledge, so much subject-matter of fact and law, rather than as the effective method of inquiry into any subject-matter" (cited in Archambault, 1964, p. 182).

Certainly, teachers need a combination of subject-matter knowledge and pedagogical training -- but how much of each?

Guided by Shulman's (1986 , 1987 tripartate model of teacher expertise (subject matter knowledge (SMK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and general pedagogical knowledge (GPK)), the present study examined 162 U.S. and Chinese 3rd grade mathematics teachers' expertise in teaching fractions.