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The journey from child to scientist : integrating cognitive development and the education sciences /

"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 develo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Carver, Sharon M., Shrager, Jeff
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, ©2012.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From theory to application and back: following in the giant footsteps of David Klahr
  • The learning of science and the science of learning: the role of analogy
  • Does folk science develop?
  • The evolved mind and scientific discovery
  • Educational neuroscience: applying the Klahrian method to science education
  • Is development domain specific or domain general? a third alternative
  • Simulating discovery and education in a soccer science world
  • Moving young "scientists-in-waiting" onto science learning pathways: focus on observation
  • Supporting inquiry about the foundations of evolutionary thinking in the elementary grades
  • Engineering in and for science education
  • To teach or not to teach through inquiry
  • Epistemic foundations for conceptual change
  • Patterns, rules, and discoveries in life and in science.