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Invited AARE President’s Address to the First Joint Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education and the New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Christchurch, December 1987.

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Evans, G. Getting learning under control. Aust. Educ. Res. 15, 1–17 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03219398

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