QUESTIONS: BIOLOGY TEACHERS ARE ASKING: AN INTERVIEW WITH ANTON E. LAWSON

From: The American Biology Teacher | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Cardellini, Liberato | Copyright information

About Anton E. Lawson

Professor Lawson's career in biology education began in the late 1960s in California where he taught middle school science and mathematics for three years before completing his Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma and moving to Purdue University in 1973. Lawson continued his research career at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley in 1974, and then moved to Arizona State University in 1977, where he currently conducts research and teaches...

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