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In this paper, in response to Ajay Sharma’s paper titled “Portrait of a science teacher as a bricoleur: A case study from India” and associated reviews, I address the value of bridging two narrative styles for describing teacher development, discuss questions of over-essentializing an Indian school context, propose that teacher and student participants should be included in this type of writing series, and identify institutional barriers to researchers acting as agents-of-change.
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Basu, S.J. Empowering communities of research and practice by conducting research for change and including participant voice in reflection on research. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 3, 859–865 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-008-9119-8
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