Conceptualizing Truth: Implications for Teaching and Learning

It has been widely noted that society has moved away from seeing truth as an objective and, in some ways, important part of what it means to be educated. Varied conceptions of truth have existed and have been debated in the halls of academia for years but recently a shift has occurred in which truth has lost its status broadly as a virtue. In fact, in 2016, Oxford Dictionary declared “post—truth” as its international word of the year, defined as: ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in wh...