Teachers' Inclusive Strategies to Accommodate 5th Grade Pupils' Crossing of Cultural Borders in Two Greek Multicultural Science Classrooms

Research in Science Education

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 329-351

  Piliouras, Panagiotis ^a   Evangelou, Odysseas ^a  

^a Primary Education Council   (Greece)

Author keywords

Collaborative inquiry; Discourse analysis; Primary school migrant pupils; Science teaching; Teachers' inclusive strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857924191     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-010-9198-x     Document Type: Article

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