Exploring adolescent decision making about equity: Ill-structured problem solving in social studies

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 357-383

  Osana, Helena P ^a   Tucker, Bradley J ^a   Bennett, Toby ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Citizen education; Cognitive processes; Concept representation; Decision making; Social reasoning; Social studies education; Student conceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038346606     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-476X(02)00057-7     Document Type: Article

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