'Conceptual change' as both revolutionary and evolutionary process

Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-72

  Keiny, Shoshana ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Community of learners; Dialogical conversation; Intentionality; Phenomenography; Self organization; Semiotic evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849232728     PISSN: 13540602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13540600701837657     Document Type: Article

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