Building a case for a sociocultural and inquiry-oriented view of science education

Journal of Science Education and Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 241-249

  Hodson, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constructivism; Fruitful; Intelligible; Phenomena; Plausible

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003973491     PISSN: 10590145     EISSN: 15731839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009464531308     Document Type: Article

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