Community-Based Service-Learning as a Source of Personal Self-Efficacy: Preparing Preservice Elementary Teachers to Teach Science for Diversity

School Science and Mathematics

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-30

  Cone, Neporcha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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EID: 77955945985     PISSN: 00366803     EISSN: 19498594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1949-8594.2009.tb17859.x     Document Type: Article

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