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Students are then misled into thinking that they have pursued inquiry and possess understanding when they have, in fact, only used technical terms the meaning of which they did not comprehend and only dealt in vacuous generalizations devoid of genuine thought and substance. In such circumstances they are encouraged to embrace the all too widespread rationalization that ‘any opinion is just as good as any other opinion.’
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Steinberg, R.N. (2011). Thank you! Thank you, so smart i am. In: Steinberg, R.N. (eds) An Inquiry into Science Education, Where the Rubber Meets the Road. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-690-8_11
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