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By all accounts, science and inquiry should go hand in hand. Whether the same is true of science education and inquiry is quite another matter.
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Riga, F., Winterbottom, M., Harris, E., Newby, L. (2017). Inquiry-Based Science Education. In: Taber, K.S., Akpan, B. (eds) Science Education. New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-749-8_19
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