Prospective teachers' general epistemic curiosity and domain-specific epistemic curiosity: The mediating role of perceived instrumentality

Higher Education in a State of Crisis

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 163-183

  Eren, Altay ^a  

^a ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epistemic curiosity; Perceived instrumentality; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883559056     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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