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Representing Scientific Problems and Tools for Thinking

What Kinds of Problems Do Scientists Work on? Do I Like to Work on the Problems of Science? Would I Like to Be|Become a Scientist?

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In the previous chapter, we explained our negative feelings toward treating knowledge as an object. Under that condition, knowing means having or possessing these objects in our brains, and the key goals of learning science become building memory.

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Kirch, S.A., Amoroso, M. (2016). Representing Scientific Problems and Tools for Thinking. In: Being and Becoming Scientists Today. Cultural and Historical Perspectives On Science education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-349-0_4

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