Where am I? Elementary school students' representation and location of space

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

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 201-210

  Ocal, Adem ^a  

^a AKSARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Location; Mental maps; Representation; Social studies; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861147089     PISSN: 13087711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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