The heisenberg microscope: A powerful instructional tool for promoting meta-cognitive and meta-scientific thinking on quantum mechanics and the 'Nature of Science'

Science and Education

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 613-639

  Hadzidaki, Pandora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Explicit highly contextualized NOS instruction; Philosophical readings of thought experimentation in physical science; Quantum mechanics teaching and learning; Thought experiments in science and education

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649131033     PISSN: 09267220     EISSN: 15731901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11191-006-9057-3     Document Type: Article

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