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Vasiliki Pournantzi; Konstantinos Zacharos; Maria Angela Shiakalli – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2016
This paper attempts to investigate five and six-year old children's ability to formulate logical reasoning. More specifically, our interest focuses on the investigation of young children's ability to use arguments based on logical reasoning. Can pre-school children build arguments based on logical reasoning such as deductive reasoning, or forms of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Logical Thinking, Persuasive Discourse, Abstract Reasoning
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Tzekaki, Marianna – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1996
Examined children's ability to settle causal relations and their capacity to make conclusions based on certain experiences and representations. Found that preschool children have a solid explanatory basis for their everyday life, within which facts are not generally accepted but are interpreted through a certain "logic," and the motives…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures