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This article reflects on Roussel De Carvalho’s paper ‘Science initial teacher education and superdiversity: educating science teachers for a multi-religious and globalized science classroom’. It then offers suggestions for making some of the ambitious goals of the science-and-religion components of the science initial teacher education project more manageable.
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This review essay addresses issues raised in Roussel De Carvalho’s paper, ‘Science initial teacher education and superdiversity: educating science teachers for a multi-religious and globalised science classroom’. doi:10.1007/s11422-015-9671-y.
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Poole, M. The feasibility of educating trainee science teachers in issues of science and religion. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 11, 273–281 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-015-9697-1
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