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Valeria M. Cabello – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2025
Considering the increasing severity of environmental disasters and the scarcity of studies centered on children's perspectives, this article explores context-based learning to create spaces of hope. Constructing explanations fosters meaning creation and knowledge integration. Fourth graders' self-explanations about contamination in a degraded…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Science Education
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Minju Kim; Adena Schachner – Developmental Science, 2025
Listening to music activates representations of movement and social agents. Why? We test whether causal reasoning plays a role, and find that from childhood, people can intuitively reason about how musical sounds were generated, inferring the events and agents that caused the sounds. In Experiment 1 (N = 120, pre-registered), 6-year-old children…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Music