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As I think about knowledge – what constitutes knowledge, how knowledge is held and used, whose knowledge counts – I am taken back to times when I felt like a knower and times when I did not. In our late twenties, my partner Laurie and I moved to Germany for two years because I had accepted a teaching position with Canada’s Department of National Defence.
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Debbie, P. (2015). Conceptualizing Parent Knowledge. In: Living as Mapmakers. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-361-2_1
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