Potential teachers' appropriate and inappropriate application of pedagogical resources in a model-based physics course: A "knowledge in pieces" perspective on teacher learning

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1098-1126

  Harlow, Danielle B ^a   Bianchini, Julie A ^a   Swanson, Lauren H ^b   Dwyer, Hilary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WHITTIER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

learning to teach; model based science instruction; pedagogical resources; potential science teachers

Indexed keywords

PEDAGOGICAL RESOURCES; SCIENCE EDUCATION; SCIENCE INSTRUCTIONS; SCIENCE TEACHERS; SCIENCE TEACHING; SCIENTIFIC TERMS; TEACHER LEARNING; TEACHERS';

CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

TEACHING;

EID: 84885949126     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.21108     Document Type: Article

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