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Teaching Chemistry with and Without External Representations in Professional Environments with Limited Resources

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  1. University of Venda, Republic of South Africa

    Liliana Mammino

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  1. The University of Reading, UK

    John K. Gilbert

  2. Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

    Miriam Reiner

  3. Purdue University, USA

    Mary Nakhleh

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Mammino, L. (2008). Teaching Chemistry with and Without External Representations in Professional Environments with Limited Resources. In: Gilbert, J.K., Reiner, M., Nakhleh, M. (eds) Visualization: Theory and Practice in Science Education. Models and Modeling in Science Education, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5267-5_8

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