The importance of socio-cultural context for understanding students' meaning making in the study of genetics

Cultural Studies of Science Education

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 211-219

  Furberg, Anniken ^a   Arnseth, Hans Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Network for IT Research and Competence in Education   (Norway)

Author keywords

Conceptual change; Context; Interaction analysis; Socio cultural perspective

Indexed keywords

EID: 59849119109     PISSN: 18711502     EISSN: 18711510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11422-008-9158-1     Document Type: Article

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