Informed Reflexivity: Enacting Epistemic Virtue

Educational Psychologist

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 284-298

  Weinstock, Michael ^a   Kienhues, Dorothe ^b   Feucht, Florian C ^c   Ryan, Mary ^d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Thinking Habitats   (United States)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 85026549168     PISSN: 00461520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00461520.2017.1349662     Document Type: Article

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