The contribution of understandings of evolutionary theory and nature of science to pre-service science teacher's acceptance of evolutionary theory

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 1889-1893

  Akyol, Gülsüm ^a   Tekkaya, Ceren ^a   Sungur, Semra ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Evolutionary theory; Nature of science; Pre service science teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951862374     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.12.419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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