Privileging and artifacts: On the use of information technology in science education

Interchange

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 225-250

  Almqvist, Jonas ^a   Östman, Leif ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Artifact; Doubt; Education; Information technology; Language game; Meaning making; Privileging; Sociocultural; Sociotechnical; Wittgenstein

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249292884     PISSN: 08264805     EISSN: 15731790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10780-006-9002-z     Document Type: Article

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