Enhancing the Practicum Experience for Pre-service Chemistry Teachers Through Collaborative CoRe Design with Mentor Teachers

Research in Science Education

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2107-2136

  Hume, Anne ^a   Berry, Amanda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Content representations (CoRes); PCK; Practicum; Pre service teachers; School based mentor associate teacher

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884534111     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-012-9346-6     Document Type: Article

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