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Jakab, Cheryl – Research in Science Education, 2013
This paper reports on 6-11-year-old children's "sayings and doings" (HarrĂ© 2002) as they explore molecule artefacts in dialectical-interactive teaching interviews (Fleer, "Cultural Studies of Science Education" 3:781-786, 2008; Hedegaard et al. 2008). This sociocultural study was designed to explore children's…
Descriptors: Children, Science Process Skills, Scientific Attitudes, Discourse Analysis
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Storey, Colin – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2005
The perceptions of a group of 5-6-year olds were tested against two disparate hypotheses, one for nested hierarchies, the other for symbolic representations in language and learning. There is evidence that young children have the foundation for tackling more sophisticated and challenging ideas than is usually recognised. Linguistically, children…
Descriptors: Young Children, Student Attitudes, Comprehension, Difficulty Level