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Issues and Challenges: Impacting Practice and Policy

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Issues and Challenges in Science Education Research

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A conceptual change perspective is employed to discuss the reasons why science education research seems to have limited impact on practice and policy making, and how researchers can address the issues and challenges of making research more accessible, intelligible, plausible and fruitful to teachers and policy makers who are dissatisfied with the their current science education situations.

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  1. Natural Sciences and Science Education, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Kim Chwee Daniel Tan

  2. Curriculum and Instruction, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Mijung Kim

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  1. , Natural Sciences & Science Education, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Walk 1, Singapore, 637616, Singapore

    Kim Chwee Daniel Tan

  2. , Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Victoria, Victoria, V8W 2Y2, British Columbia, Canada

    Mijung Kim

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Tan, K.C.D., Kim, M. (2012). Issues and Challenges: Impacting Practice and Policy. In: Tan, K., Kim, M. (eds) Issues and Challenges in Science Education Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3980-2_21

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