If there is no one right answer?: The epistemological implications of classroom interactions

Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 180-194

  Tabak, Iris ^a   Weinstock, Michael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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