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The Organization of he Concept of Knowledge.

Academic Exchange Quarterly

| June 22, 2001 | Lee, Chun Wah | COPYRIGHT 2001 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

The purpose of this pilot study is to find out how first-year university students who are majoring in communication studies organize their own concept of knowledge. A card sort procedure was used in gathering data. Each of the 113 participants was asked to sort out a set of 45 words related to the defining concept of knowledge. The findings are interpreted as evidence that these participants think of knowledge as a tri-polar concept, with extremes of open and expressive (`Socratic') knowledge, empirically structured ('Cartesian') knowledge, and socially structured (`authoritative') knowledge organized around a central concept of informally structured ...

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