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Original Articles

Teachers’ conceptions of the environment: anthropocentrism, non-anthropocentrism, anthropomorphism and the place of nature

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Pages 893-917 | Received 27 Oct 2014, Accepted 13 Jul 2015, Published online: 18 Sep 2015

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