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On Becoming Significant

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Part of the book series: Practice of Research Method ((PRM,volume 3))

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In chapter 2, I describe the method associated with an experiment explicitly set up for learning something unknown before. I wanted to better understand learning processes, which sensitized me to the need to be aware of not only what I was coming to know or the how I was coming to know but also the presuppositions in the forms of awareness associated with each new realization.

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Roth, WM. (2012). On Becoming Significant. In: Roth, WM. (eds) First-Person Methods. Practice of Research Method, vol 3. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-831-5_7

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