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Children's informal ideas in science / edited by P.J. Black and A.M. Lucas.

Title
Children's informal ideas in science / edited by P.J. Black and A.M. Lucas.
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Black, P. J. (Paul Joseph), 1930-
  • Lucas, A. M. (Arthur Maurice), 1941-
Description
xiii, 244 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
This book offers much needed theory to back up a wealth of international research. It combines 12 critical approaches to tackle one central issue - whether children's ideas about science can be explained in a single theoretical framework.
Subject
  • Schüler
  • Science > Study and teaching
  • Science > Study and teaching (Elementary)
  • Educational psychology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Four frames for a field / Joan Solomon -- The relevance of Piaget to research into children's conceptions / Joan Bliss -- Minitheories: a preliminary model for learning science / Guy Claxton -- An alternative conception: representing representations / Terry Russell -- The social construction of children's scientific knowledge / Joan Solomon -- A view of 'understanding" / Jon Ogborn -- A common-sense theory of motion / Joan Bliss, Jon Ogborn -- Constructing knowledge from fragments of learning? / Arthur Lucas -- Vernacular science: something to rely on in your action? / Neil Ryder -- Schematic representation in optics / Jayashree Ramadas, Michael Shayer -- The interplay of values and research in science education / Guy Claxton -- How can we specify concepts for primary science? / Paul Black, Wynne Harlen -- Ways ahead? / Paul Black, Arthur Lucas.
ISBN
0415005396
LCCN
^^^92041878^
OCLC
27034652
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library