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The Journey from Child to Scientist: Integrating Cognitive Development and the Education Sciences
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Carver, Sharon M., Ed.; Shrager, Jeff, Ed. – APA Books, 2012
The impulse to investigate the natural world is deeply rooted in our earliest childhood experiences. This notion has long guided researchers to uncover the cognitive mechanisms underlying the development of scientific reasoning in children. Until recently, however, research in cognitive development and education followed largely independent…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Science Education
Constructivism in Education: Opinions and Second Opinions on Controversial Issues. Ninety-Ninth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education.
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Phillips, D. C., Ed. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2000
This yearbook contains essays that examine the construction of knowledge. The 10 articles, which are called "opinions," are divided into 5 sections, most of which examine the construction of scientific knowledge. An editor's introduction begins each section. Section 1, "Constructivism as an Epistemology and Philosophy of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum
The Mind's Staircase: Exploring the Conceptual Underpinnings of Children's Thought and Knowledge.
Case, Robbie; And Others – 1992
This book, which contains 19 chapters, examines children's learning processes in light of reconceptualizations of Piagetian theory. Part one traces the theoretical question underpinning this examination and includes three chapters: "General and Specific Views of the Mind, its Structure, and its Development"; "A Neo-Piagetian…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures