Learning to teach science: Personal epistemologies, teaching goals, and practices of teaching

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 478-498

  Kang, Nam Hwa ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Epistemology; Preservice teacher; Science; Science teacher education; Teaching goal

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949139585     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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