The importance of learning about knowing: Creating a foundation for development of intellectual values

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 112-117

  Kuhn, Deanna ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Education; Epistemological understanding; Intellectual values; Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749114246     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2009.00089.x     Document Type: Article

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