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Metacognition in Science Education contains an updated collection of studies about the role of metacognition in teaching and learning higher order thinking in science education. The fields of research
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In this book, a teacher educator examines her practice as a way of learning about teaching as well as challenging teacher education. It is about how one teacher educator sought to transform the perspe
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