From a sense of stereotypically foreign to belonging in a science community: Ways of experiential descriptions about high school students' science internship

Research in Science Education

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 291-311

  Hsu, Pei Ling ^a   Roth, Wolff Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Authentic science experience; Informal learning; Phenomenography; Science internship

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955050702     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-009-9121-5     Document Type: Article

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