Conceptions of students about renewable energy sources: A need to teach based on contextual approaches

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1488-1492

  Çoker, Bünyamin ^a   Çatlioǧlu, Hakan ^a   Birgin, Osman ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

contextual teaching; education; energy sources; Renewable enery sources; students' knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957701407     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.223     Document Type: Conference Paper

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