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refers to the teaching and learning of chemistry operating in terms of macroscopic phenomena, submicroscopic entities, and specialist representations – a.k.a the chemistry triplet or chemist's triplet
"Alex Johnstone…noted in a short paper about the nature of a chemistry curriculum suitable for all learners, that chemists "view our subject on at least three levels" and "jump freely from level to level in a series of mental gymnastics". In later publications Johnstone…represented the levels as a triangle" (Taber, 2013, p.156)
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