Theorizing scientific literacy in the wild

Educational Research Review

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 184-194

  van Eijck, Michiel ^a   Roth, Wolff Michael ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CHAT; Cultural historical activity theory; Distributed cognition; Everyday cognition; Scientific literacy; Situated cognition; Sociocultural theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953230470     PISSN: 1747938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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