Environmental attitudes of pre-service teachers: A conceptual and methodological dilemma in cross-cultural data collection

Asia Pacific Education Review

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 59-71

  Watson, Kevin ^a   Halse, Christine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitude; Cross cultural; Environment education; Methodological; Phenomenography

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646455020     PISSN: 15981037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03024968     Document Type: Article

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