A qualitative case study of prospective chemistry teachers' knowledge about instructional strategies: Introducing particulate theory

Journal of Science Teacher Education

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-156

  Boz, Nihat ^a   Boz, Yezdan ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Particulate theory; PCK; Prospective teachers; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849118266     PISSN: 1046560X     EISSN: 15731847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10972-007-9087-y     Document Type: Article

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