Promoting Authentic Inquiry in the Sciences: Challenges Faced in Redefining University Students’ Scientific Epistemology

Inquiry In Education: Volume II: Overcoming Barriers to Successful Implementation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2017, Pages 301-324

  Butler, Deborah L ^a,b   Pollock, Carol ^b   Nomme, Kathy M ^b   Nakonechny, Joanne ^b  

^a Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 84982953584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315092669-14     Document Type: Chapter

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