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Science and religion in a high school physics class: revisiting the source materials of “The interaction of scientific and religious discourses”

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In and with this text, I introduce the Forum that centers around a series of essays written by a high school student and an interview with his teacher all collected as part of a larger study about students’ discourses with respect to (nature of) science, learning, and knowing. I provide a brief review of the original findings, which had been published in a study co-authored by the student and myself, his physics teacher.

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Roth, WM. Science and religion in a high school physics class: revisiting the source materials of “The interaction of scientific and religious discourses”. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 5, 163–167 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-009-9224-3

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