Extending the Theoretical Framing for Physics Education Research: An Illustrative Application of Complexity Science

This is an electronic version of an article published as: Forsman, J., Moll, R. & Linder, C. (2014). Extending the theoretical framing for physics education research: An illustrative application of complexity science. Physical Review Special Topics – Physics Education Research, 10(2), 020122:1-020122:13. Physical Review Special Topics – Physics Education Research is available online at: https://journals.aps.org/prstper/ and this article is available at: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.10.020122

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