A constructivist approach to a high-enrollment undergraduate environmental-education course

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 249-254

  Carpenter, John Richard ^a   Zenger, Stephen ^a   Tolhurst, Jeffrey W ^b   Barron, Amy ^a   Day, Elizabeth A ^a   Dozier, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b National University and Columbia College   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth science teaching and curriculum; Education geoscience; Education special clientele; Engineering and environmental geology

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH;

EID: 0344631549     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-47.3.249     Document Type: Article

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