Exposing the impact of opp(reg)ressive policies on teacher development and on student learning

Cultural Studies of Science Education

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 923-940

  Rodriguez, Alberto J ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equity; Multicultural; Policy; Sociotransformative constructivism

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449231422     PISSN: 18711502     EISSN: 18711510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11422-010-9281-7     Document Type: Article

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