Transforming Confirmation Bias to Generate Critical Consciousness in News/Information Literacy and Social Science Courses
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1918-2902
DOI: 10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2020.2.9472