Complexities of graphical representations during ecology lectures: An analysis rooted in semiotics and hermeneutic phenomenology

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 235-255

  Roth, Wolff Michael ^a   Bowen, G Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition; Graphing; Phenomenology; Semiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346097025     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4752(98)00029-2     Document Type: Article

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