Discussing the greenhouse effect: Children's collaborative discourse reasoning and conceptual change

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-85

  Mason, Lucia ^a   Santi, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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EID: 0013307241     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350462980040105     Document Type: Article

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