A study on the prospective teachers' knowledge, teaching methods and attitudes towards global warming with respect to different variables

Energy Education Science and Technology Part B: Social and Educational Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 315-330

  Bozdogan, Aykut Emre ^a   Karsli, Fethiye ^a   Sahin, Cigdem ^a  

^a GIRESUN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Global warming; Prospective teachers' knowledge attitude teaching methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861130358     PISSN: 13087711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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