"who polluted the Potomac?" the translation and implementation of a US environmental story in Brazilian and Turkish classrooms

Cultural Studies of Science Education

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 89-132

  Oliveira, Alandeom W ^a   Colak, Huseyin ^b   Akerson, Valarie L ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Context; Curriculum adaptation; Detachment; Environment; Field; Involvement; Mode; Pollution; Story; Tenor; Text; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 59849102672     PISSN: 18711502     EISSN: 18711510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11422-008-9103-3     Document Type: Article

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