multiplicity

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(see also 'multiplist') the middle stages in Perry's scheme of intellectual and ethical development

"In the second part (positions 4-6) there is a deepening appreciation of the problematic nature of laissez-faire relativism….after abandoning certainty a person perceives knowledge and values as relative, contingent, and contextual…" (Taber, 2020)

Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.