Making Meaning in Classrooms: Social Processes in Small-Group Discourse and Scientific Knowledge Building

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 839-858

  Richmond, Gail ^a   Striley, Joanne ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001508780     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2736(199610)33:8<839::AID-TEA2>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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