Inquiry learning reconsidered: Contexts, representations and challenges

Orchestrating Inquiry Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 7-30

  Scanlon, Eileen ^a   Anastopoulou, Stamatina ^b   Kerawalla, Lucinda ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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EID: 84864663031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203136195     Document Type: Chapter

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