How students design and enact physics lessons: Five immigrant Caribbean youth and the cultivation of student voice

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 881-899

  Basu, Sreyashi Jhumki ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equity; Physics; Secondary; Urban education

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES; CASE STUDIES; CLASSROOM PRACTICES; CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHIES; EQUITY; FIELD NOTES; GROUNDED THEORIES; LIMITED DATUMS; MINORITY STUDENTS; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS; PHYSICS EDUCATIONS; SECONDARY; URBAN EDUCATION;

CULTIVATION; EDUCATION; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 55349140398     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20257     Document Type: Article

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