Teacher-education students' epistemological belief change through collaborative knowledge building

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 99-110

  Hong, Huang Yao ^a   Lin, Shu Ping ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Epistemological beliefs; Knowledge building; Pedagogical beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950671253     PISSN: 01195646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3860/taper.v19i1.1511     Document Type: Article

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