Seeing the natural world: A tension between pupils' diverse conceptions as revealed by their visual representations and monolithic science lessons

Visual Communication

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-114

  Reiss, Michael ^a   Boulter, Carolyn ^a   Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biology; colour; drawings; environment; models; post modernism; realism; representations; scale; science education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997884159     PISSN: 14703572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470357207071467     Document Type: Article

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