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In-Between Chapter: Troubling the Social – Entanglement, Agency, and the Body in Science Education

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This introduction to the “social” in science education that is troubled in the following texts will be based on our own experiences of adopting various socio-material theories in research. These experiences have brought us to recognize the challenges that emerge and which we wish to address in this in-between chapter.

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Løken, M., Serder, M. (2018). In-Between Chapter: Troubling the Social – Entanglement, Agency, and the Body in Science Education. In: Otrel-Cass, K., Sillasen, M., Orlander, A. (eds) Cultural, Social, and Political Perspectives in Science Education . Cultural Studies of Science Education, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61191-4_11

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