"I want to use my subject matter to...": The role of purpose in one U.S. secondary history teacher's instructional decision making

Canadian Journal of Education

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 670-690

  Van Hover, Stephanie ^a   Yeager, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beginning teachers; Document based instruction; Historical inquiry; History teaching; Instructional decision making; Methods courses; Social studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 37049016010     PISSN: 03802361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20466658     Document Type: Article

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