Preparing teachers to create a mainstream science classroom conducive to the needs of english-language learners: A feminist action research project

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1013-1031

  Buck, Gayle ^a   Mast, Colette ^a   Ehlers, Nancy ^a   Franklin, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSROOM; PROGRESSIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENCE TEACHER; SEMISTRUCTURED INTERVIEWS;

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PLANNING; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 30544445122     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20085     Document Type: Article

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