The Teaching of Science as Inquiry

1958/11/01 by Joseph J. Schwab · 828 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Mathematics education #Psychology #Science Education and Pedagogy #Science education #Sociology

paper · doi:10.1080/00963402.1958.11453895

published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 14(9), 374-379 (Taylor & Francis)

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Abstract

From the book The Teaching of science which contains : The teaching of science as enquiry, by Joseph J. Schwab, and Elements in a strategy for teaching science in the elementary school, by Paul F. Brandwein. (http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=30721)

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