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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1607-4041</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista electrónica de investigación educativa]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[REDIE]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1607-4041</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Educativo]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1607-40412016000300015</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Creencias epistemológicas: premisas constitutivas de perspectivas acerca del conocimiento]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Epistemological Beliefs: Component Premises of Perspectives Regarding Knowledge]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Terrazas]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Walter Sergio]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Católica del Norte  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Chile</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>18</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<fpage>201</fpage>
<lpage>208</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1607-40412016000300015&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1607-40412016000300015&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1607-40412016000300015&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen La investigación en creencias epistemológicas se ha extendido considerablemente, sin embargo, en los últimos años se ha abierto un debate relativo a cómo deben deben ser caracterizadas y evaluadas. En este contexto, la presente investigación busca caracterizar estas creencias como premisas constitutivas de perspectivas epistemológicas. 55 estudiantes universitarios de primer año provenientes de cuatro disciplinas académicas fueron evaluados a través del dilema de la construcción de las pirámides egipcias. Dos perspectivas epistemológicas fueron identificadas: una empírica caracterizada por la premisa de que el conocimiento es una sistematización objetiva de observaciones de una realidad unívoca que se materializa en una única explicación posible, y una perspectiva relativista individual que se caracteriza por la premisa de que el conocimiento es una sistematización subjetiva de hechos que da lugar a múltiples explicaciones igualmente válidas. El artículo discute la naturaleza de las premisas, la utilidad de una metodología basada en dilemas y las implicancias para la práctica educativa.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Research on epistemological beliefs has become widespread, but in recent years has opened the doors to a debate on how these beliefs should be characterized and assessed. It is within this context that this study seeks to characterize these beliefs as component premises of epistemological perspectives. The study evaluated 55 first-year university students from four academic disciplines by means of the Egyptian pyramid-building dilemma. Two epistemological perspectives were identified. One was empirical and supported by the premise that knowledge is an objective systematization of observations of an unequivocal reality embodied by just one possible explanation, and the other was an individual relativist perspective supported by the premise that knowledge is a subjective systematization of facts that gives rise to multiple but equally valid explanations. The paper discusses the nature of these premises, the utility of a dilemma-based methodology and the implications for educational practice.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Creencias epistemológicas]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[conocimiento]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[educación superior]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Epistemological beliefs]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[knowledge]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[higher education]]></kwd>
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