'You Have to Give Them Some Science Facts': Primary Student Teachers' Early Negotiations of Teacher Identities in the Intersections of Discourses About Science Teaching and About Primary Teaching

Research in Science Education

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 289-305

  Danielsson, Anna T ^a   Warwick, Paul ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse; Identity; Primary science; Primary teaching; Science education; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899005988     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-013-9383-9     Document Type: Article

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