Evidence-based teacher education: Becoming a lifelong research-oriented chemistry teacher?

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 84-91

  Aksela, Maija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chemical education; Evidence based education; Inquiry based learning; Lifelong learning; Pedagogical content knowledge; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955806632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c005350n     Document Type: Article

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