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Primary Trainee Teachers’ Learning and Teaching About Light: Some pedagogic implications for initial teacher training

Dave S. Heywood Manchester Metropolitan University, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1447-1475 | Published online: 13 Mar 2011

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