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Elementary Preservice Teachers' Struggles to Define Inquiry-Based Science Teaching

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Hayes, M.T. Elementary Preservice Teachers' Struggles to Define Inquiry-Based Science Teaching. Journal of Science Teacher Education 13, 147–165 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015169731478

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