Exploring Elementary Pre-service Teachers' Beliefs About Science Teaching and Learning as Revealed in Their Metaphor Writing

Journal of Science Education and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 703-714

  Seung, Eulsun ^a   Park, Soonhye ^b   Narayan, Ratna ^c  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs and practice; Metaphor writing; Preservice teacher education; Science teaching methods courses; Teacher beliefs about teaching and learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255206997     PISSN: 10590145     EISSN: 15731839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10956-010-9263-2     Document Type: Article

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