Interpreting scientific and engineering practices: Integrating the cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions

Scientific and Technological Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 17-56

  Nersessian, Nancy J ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410611314     Document Type: Chapter

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