Toward the mark of empowering policies in elementary school science programs and teacher professional development

Cultural Studies of Science Education

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 977-983

  Mensah, Felicia Moore ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Elementary science; Policy; Professional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449260521     PISSN: 18711502     EISSN: 18711510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11422-010-9279-1     Document Type: Article

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