A cultural-historical study of children learning science : foregrounding affective imagination in play-based settings /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
[2015]
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| Series: | Cultural studies of science education (2010) ;
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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.