Overview
- Examines theory and empirical research on how to understand children’s science learning
- Provides empirical data from different cultural settings
- Relates and synthesises original research
Part of the book series: Cultural Studies of Science Education (CSSE, volume 11)
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Keywords
- Bruner narrative knowledge
- CHAT
- Davydov theoretical knowledge and dialectical thinking
- Slowmation
- Vygotsky
- Vygotsky imagination and play
- Vygotsky theory of play
- cultural-historical theory
- early childhood science education
- play-based early childhood education
- play-based settings
- teaching & learning and developmental psychology
- learning and instruction
Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Theoretical Foundations for Learning Science in Early Childhood
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Knowledge Construction in Science
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The Pedagogical Construction of Learning Science
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Models of Early Childhood Teaching
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Cultural-Historical Study of Children Learning Science
Book Subtitle: Foregrounding Affective Imagination in Play-based Settings
Authors: Marilyn Fleer, Niklas Pramling
Series Title: Cultural Studies of Science Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9370-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9369-8Published: 14 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0576-7Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9370-4Published: 01 October 2014
Series ISSN: 1879-7229
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7237
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 213
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Science Education, Early Childhood Education, Learning & Instruction