commitment

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Commitment is the final stage in Perry's scheme of intellectual and ethical development, when "the individual draws upon their experience to develop their own personal system of commitments….ultimately the person undertakes to affirm personal commitments in a world of contingent knowledge and vlaues…" (Taber, 2020).

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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.