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The call for manuscripts that initiated this theme issue How do the commitments associated with such underpinnings influence research into science teaching and learning? Manuscripts ought to explore historical, philosophical, sociological, and/or theoretical frames of reference for doing research in science education. Author may wish to consider what constitutes knowledge and being within a particular frame and then delineate viable research questions, methodologies, and methods as they discuss their research.
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