Incorporating Multiple Epistemologies into Teaching Statistics to Social Work Students

Journal of Teaching in Social Work

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 17-32

  Calderwood, Kimberly A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical theory; Epistemology; Ethnomathematics; Social work; Statistics; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011452602     PISSN: 08841233     EISSN: 15407349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J067v22n01_03     Document Type: Article

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