Urban High School Students' Critical Science Agency: Conceptual Understandings and Environmental Actions Around Climate Change

Research in Science Education

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 373-399

  McNeill, Katherine L ^a   Vaughn, Meredith Houle ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Critical science agency; Curriculum; Environmental action, environmental literacy; High school; Science education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857916401     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-010-9202-5     Document Type: Article

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