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“Meaning making” may be thought of as the “sense making” that occurs when an individual interacts with new information, objects, ideas, experiences and/or images and incorporates them into his or her prior understanding in a mechanism that most would call constructivist (see also).
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McComas, W.F. (2014). Meaning Making and Science Learning. In: McComas, W.F. (eds) The Language of Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-497-0_54
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