Emotions expressed toward genetically modified organisms among secondary school students and pre-service teachers

Journal of Baltic Science Education

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-64

  Šorgo, Andrej ^a   Dolin̈ek, Jana Ambrožič ^a   Tomažič, Iztok ^b   Janžekovič, Franc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Emotions; Genetically modified organisms; Pre service teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855836143     PISSN: 16483898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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