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Publication information:
Book title: The Practice of Constructivism in Science Education.
Contributors: Kenneth Tobin - Editor.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Place of publication: Hillsdale, NJ.
Publication year: 1993.
Page number: 266.
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