A cultural-historical study of children learning science : foregrounding affective imagination in play-based settings /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fleer, Marilyn (Author), Pramling, Niklas (Author)
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2015]
Series:Cultural studies of science education (2010) ; 11.
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Table of Contents:
  • Section 1: Theoretical foundations for learning science in early childhood
  • Learning science in everyday life? a cultural-historical framework
  • How preschools environments afford science learning
  • Imagination and its contributions to learning in science
  • Theoretical and conceptual insights? the young learner in science
  • Section 2: Knowledge construction in science
  • Knowledge construction in early childhood science: The human invention of empirical, narrative and theoretical
  • Knowledge construction is culturally situated
  • Positioning children in research and the implications for our images of their competence
  • Section 3: The pedagogical construction of learning science
  • Learning and metaphor: Bridging the gap between the familiar and the unfamiliar
  • Simile, metaphor and learning to perceive the world in functional and culturally relevant ways
  • Learning to?read? and produce graphical representations
  • The nature of educational encounters
  • Theoretical and conceptual insights? representations in science
  • Section 4: Models of early childhood teaching
  • A cultural-historical model of early childhood science education.