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ERIC Number: EJ625556
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4308
Deep Time Framework: A Preliminary Study of U.K. Primary Teachers' Conceptions of Geological Time and Perceptions of Geoscience.
Trend, Roger David
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, v38 n2 p191-221 Feb 2001
Studies (n=51) inservice school teachers with regard to their orientations toward geoscience phenomena in general and deep time in particular. Aims to identify the nature of idiosyncratic conceptions of deep time and propose a curricular Deep Time Framework for teacher education. (Contains 29 references.) (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Earth Science, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Geology, Misconceptions, Science Education, Teacher Education Programs
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Conceptual Change; Conceptual Frameworks; Geologic Time; United Kingdom