The 'ostension-teaching' approach as a means to develop junior-high student attitudes towards biotechnologies

Journal of Biological Education

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-31

  Olsher, Gila ^a,b   Dreyfus, Amos ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BEIT BERL COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biotechnologies; Ostension teaching

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; TEACHING;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0033399488     PISSN: 00219266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00219266.1999.9655679     Document Type: Article

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