Teaching and learning cycles in a constructivist approach to instruction

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1613-1634

  Singer, Florence Mihaela ^a   Moscovici, Hedy ^b  

^a Institute for Educational Sciences   (Romania)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inquiry; Learning activities; Teacher's role; Teaching and learning cycle; Teaching models

Indexed keywords

EID: 45049087683     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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