Assessment of slovene secondary school students' attitudes to biotechnology in terms of usefulness, moral acceptability and risk perception

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 747-758

  Črne Hladnik, Helena ^a   Peklaj, Cirila ^b   Košmelj, Katarina ^b   Hladnik, Aleš ^b   Javornik, Branka ^b  

^a Secondary school Gimnazija i ka   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Adolescent attitudes; Biotechnology; Moral acceptability; Risk perception; Usefulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350637673     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: 13616609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963662509336761     Document Type: Article

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