Activity frames and complexity thinking: Honoring both public and personal agendas in an emergent curriculum

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1003-1014

  Collins, Steve ^a   Clarke, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complexity thinking; Curriculum; Democracy; Enactivism; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849147400     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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