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Direct linkJankowska, Dorota M.; Gajda, Aleksandra; Karwowski, Maciej – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
This article explores how creative visual imagination and creative thinking can help children to construct mental models of space. A mixed-method study, integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches and involving 98 five-year-old children (54 girls and 44 boys) demonstrated that creative visual imagination, rather than creative thinking, is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Creative Thinking, Visual Learning
Peer reviewedRaymo, Chester – Science Education, 1973
Analyzes the nature and characteristics of the scientific endeavor to compare with that of children's play. Describes science as a form of religious sacred play which creates a world of make-believe that one may enter if one chooses to play. (CC)
Descriptors: Astronomy, Fiction, Games, Human Development
