Student teachers' conceptions of sustainable development: The starting-points of geographers and scientists

Educational Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 163-182

  Summers, Mike ^a,b   Corney, Graham ^a   Childs, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental education; Sustainable development; Teachers; Understanding

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042561492     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0013188042000222449     Document Type: Article

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