Teaching creativity and inventive problem solving in science

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 172-181

  Dehaan, Robert L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCIENCE; TEACHING; UNIVERSITY;

COGNITION; CREATIVENESS; HUMANS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCIENCE; TEACHING; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 70349472982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.08-12-0081     Document Type: Article

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