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possibilities that language and culture present, “to join in understanding local
contexts and indigenous knowledge systems, and to test new ways of living in our
world” (Brandt 2004, p. 105). To do so, ecojustice pedagogies may also need to
transgress traditional boundaries between science and not science in order to
expand the genres and ways of doing and being scientists, science teachers, or
science learners.

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