Biology Teachers Designing Context-Based Lessons for Their Classroom Practice-The importance of rules-of-thumb

International Journal of Science Education

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2437-2462

  Wieringa, Nienke ^a   Janssen, Fred J J M ^a   van Driel, Jan H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biology education; Context based education; Curriculum innovation; Lesson design; Teacher development; Teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858816906     PISSN: 09500693     EISSN: 14645289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2011.553969     Document Type: Article

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