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    Steve Alsop

  2. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Alsop, S., Bencze, L. In Search of Activist Pedagogies in SMTE. Can J Sci Math Techn 12, 394–408 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1080/14926156.2012.732256

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