Teaching about ethics through socioscientific issues in physics and chemistry: Teacher candidates' beliefs

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 380-401

  Barrett, Sarah Elizabeth ^a   Nieswandt, Martina ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Physical science; Secondary; Socioscientific issues; Teacher beliefs; Teacher education prospective teachers

Indexed keywords

BELIEF CHANGE; CHEMISTRY TEACHERS; DATA ANALYSIS; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; PHYSICAL SCIENCE; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUES; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; TEACHER BELIEFS; TEACHER EDUCATION; URBAN UNIVERSITY;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

TEACHING;

EID: 77950946721     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20343     Document Type: Article

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