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Pears, A., Daniels, M., Berglund, A. (2023). Theory and Approaches to Computing Education Research. In: Apiola, M., López-Pernas, S., Saqr, M. (eds) Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25336-2_3

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