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December 1, 2013Education 3-13

Be curious: understanding ‘curiosity’ in contemporary curriculum policy and practice

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Millions of kilometres away ‘curiosity’ roves Mars. NASA's decision to name the unmanned Mars space rover ‘curiosity’ seems inspired. Any visitor to the NASA website can be enthralled by camera foo...

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Ruth Dann (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a172e8d49465f4f4bbde1f9 https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2013.850256

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