Constructivism: Contradictions and confusions in teacher education

Constructivist Teacher Education: Building a World of New Understandings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 39-56

  MacKinnon, Allan ^a   Scarff Seatter, Carol ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 85070414535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203973684-10     Document Type: Chapter

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