How Will We Understand What We Teach? - Primary Student Teachers' Perceptions of their Development of Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Physics

Research in Science Education

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 541-560

  Nilsson, Pernilla ^a   van Driel, Jan ^b  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Primary physics; Student teacher; Subject matter knowledge; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960582927     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-010-9179-0     Document Type: Article

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