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Physics Educators and Physicist: Two Communities Apart?

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Research in Science Education in Europe

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The state of the art of the research in Physics Education can be looked at from two points of view: the Physicist’s one and the Physics Educators’.

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Vicentini, M. (1999). Physics Educators and Physicist: Two Communities Apart?. In: Bandiera, M., Caravita, S., Torracca, E., Vicentini, M. (eds) Research in Science Education in Europe. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9307-6_13

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