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Telling a tale: pieces of SMEC in my wind of memories

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This article is a personal history of the Science and Mathematics Education Center (SMEC) in Perth, Australia, during my time there as a student. I make use of narratives to express what I see as the impact on my professional practice of having attended SMEC. I am grateful to SMEC, but what is being grateful really? In this paper I try to illustrate it, agreeing that while it is easy to start a thanksgiving text, I feel handicapped to capture all the greatness I am full of.

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  1. All poems from Lakshmi extracted from http://trancequill.blogspot.com/

  2. Nhalevilo, former Afonso.

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I would like to thank a wonderful person I met in Cape Town, my friend Sandra Van Rooyen, for having read and edited the first draft of this paper.

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    Emilia A. Nhalevilo

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Nhalevilo, E.A. Telling a tale: pieces of SMEC in my wind of memories. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 6, 747–756 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-011-9337-3

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