Moving towards transdisciplinarity: An ecological sustainable focus for science and mathematics pre-service education in the primary/middle years

Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-33

  Paige, Kathryn ^a   Lloyd, David ^a   Chartres, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecological aspects of society and environment education; Mathematics education; Science education; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349140179     PISSN: 1359866X     EISSN: 14692945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13598660701793350     Document Type: Article

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