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in Lakatos's notion of a scientific research programme, hard core commitments are those which are not open to challenge within the programe

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.