Connecting Curriculum Materials and Teachers: Elementary Science Teachers' Enactment of a Reform-Based Curricular Unit

Journal of Science Teacher Education

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 489-512

  Bismack, Amber Schultz ^a   Arias, Anna Maria ^b   Davis, Elizabeth A ^b   Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum materials; Educative curriculum materials; Scientific practices; Teacher enactment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901068102     PISSN: 1046560X     EISSN: 15731847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10972-013-9372-x     Document Type: Article

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