Folk theories of "inquiry:" How preservice teachers reproduce the discourse and practices of an atheoretical scientific method

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 481-512

  Windschitl, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSROOMS; SCIENCE EDUCATION; TEACHERS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; NATURAL SCIENCES; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 2442600414     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20010     Document Type: Article

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