Teacher talk: Producing, resisting and challenging discourses about the science classroom

Gender and Education

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 735-751

  Nyström, Eva ^a  

^a Technology and Science Education ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Action research; Discourse analysis; Power relations; Practices; Science subjects; Secondary school

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649100621     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540250903119146     Document Type: Article

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