Elementary school teachers as "targets and agents of change": Teachers' learning in interaction with reform science curriculum

Science Education

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 915-954

  Metz, Kathleen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 71749111492     PISSN: 00368326     EISSN: 1098237X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sce.20309     Document Type: Article

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