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Commentary: Whose Science is of the Most Worth? Making a Case for Problem Posing Instead of Problem Solving

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This is a commentary to the case narrative, “But Why Do We Need to Study This? The Case of Arsenic in the School’s Soil” written by Jose M. Pavez.

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Aghasaleh, R. (2023). Commentary: Whose Science is of the Most Worth? Making a Case for Problem Posing Instead of Problem Solving. In: Jeong, S., Bryan, L.A., Tippins, D.J., Sexton, C.M. (eds) Navigating Elementary Science Teaching and Learning. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33418-4_73

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