The 'Lifeblood' of Science and Its Politics: Interrogating Epistemic Curiosity as an Educational Aim

Social- and virtue-epistemologies connect intellectual and moral concerns in ways significant for education and its theory. For most educationists, epistemic and ethical virtues are no longer dissociated. However, many political framings or operations of epistemic virtues and vices remain neglected...

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Main Author: Marianna Papastephanou (Author)
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Published: MDPI AG, 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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