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My contribution to the present dialogue stands in a sense aside from to those of my colleagues. On the one hand, I am not a pedagogist or a social scientist, neither as to my background, which is in the natural sciences, nor as to my scholarly activity. On a continuum ranging from the theoretician to the practitioner I would position my work as a science education scholar somewhere near the midpoint. I was asked, in fact, to contribute to this dialogue from the perspective of science education research in its international dimension. I will do so without pretension of objectivity but will nevertheless give precedence to those elements in my personal position which are grounded in broader scholarly consensus.
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Cuomo, F. (2016). What is ‘teaching’?. In: Geier, T., Pollmanns, M. (eds) Was ist Unterricht?. Studien zur Schul- und Bildungsforschung, vol 53. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-07178-3_8
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