Science Education as Emancipatory: The case of roy bhaskar's philosophy of meta‐Reality

Educational Philosophy and Theory

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 665-676

  Zembylas, Michalinos ^a,b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical realism; Critical science education; Emancipation; Meta Reality; Roy Bhaskar

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957821896     PISSN: 00131857     EISSN: 14695812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2006.00218.x     Document Type: Article

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