Modelling: Promoting creativity while forging links between science education and design and technology educationFootnote*

Parts of this article were included in a paper, “Moving between the Modes of Representation of a Model in Science Education,” read at the conference, Philosophical, Psychological, Linguistic Foundations for Language and Science Literary Research, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, 12–15 Sept. 2002.

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