Enhancing pedagogical content knowledge in elementary science

Teaching Education

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 229-242

  Goodnough, Karen ^a   Hung, Woei ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Teacher thinking and knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249086877     PISSN: 10476210     EISSN: 14701286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10476210802578921     Document Type: Article

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