Promoting Shifts in Preservice Science Teachers' Thinking through Teaching and Action Research in Informal Science Settings

Journal of Science Teacher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 811-832

  Wallace, Carolyn S ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action research; Informal science; Secondary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883456660     PISSN: 1046560X     EISSN: 15731847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10972-013-9337-0     Document Type: Article

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