Representations of nature of science in high School chemistry textbooks over the past four decades

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 835-855

  Abd El Khalick, Fouad ^a   Waters, Mindy ^a   Le, An Phong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemistry; Nature of science (NOS); Secondary; Textbooks

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY; NATURE OF SCIENCE (NOS); SECONDARY;

COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

TEXTBOOKS;

EID: 51549120237     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20226     Document Type: Article

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