Rethinking Scientific Literacy
- ISBN-10
- 0415948436
- ISBN-13
- 9780415948432
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Authors
- Angela Calabrese Barton, Wolff-Michael Roth
Description
This volume proposes a new way to conceive of scientific literacy, as it has emerged from two research agendas that the authors have been pursuing independently but which have converged conceptually.
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