The inquiry nature of primary schools and students' self-directed learning knowledge

International Education Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 166-177

  Van Deur, Penny ^a   Murray Harvey, Rosalind ^a  

^a School of Education   (Australia)

Author keywords

Explicit teaching; Inquiry based curriculum; Self directed learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944449716     PISSN: 14431475     EISSN: 14431475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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