Teaching and Learning Science for Transformative, Aesthetic Experience

Journal of Science Teacher Education

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 801-824

  Girod, Mark ^a   Twyman, Todd ^a   Wojcikiewicz, Steve ^a  

^a WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Cognitive; Dewey; Elementary; Science; Transformative experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958476845     PISSN: 1046560X     EISSN: 15731847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10972-009-9175-2     Document Type: Article

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