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STUDENT LEARNING, CHILDHOOD & VOICES

Understanding transfer from a dynamic system approach: Two studies of children using problem-solving tasks

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Article: 1814512 | Received 07 Feb 2020, Accepted 19 Aug 2020, Published online: 06 Sep 2020

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