A Cultural Historical Study Of Children Learning Science

Author : Marilyn Fleer,Niklas Pramling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401793704

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A Cultural-Historical Study of Children Learning Science by Marilyn Fleer,Niklas Pramling Pdf

This book moves beyond the traditional constructivist and social-constructivist view of learning and development in science. It draws upon cultural-historical theory in order to theorise early childhood science education in relation to our currently globalised education contexts. The book argues that concept development in science for young children can be better theorised by using Vygotsky’s concept of Imagination and creativity, Vygotsky’s theory of play, and his work on higher mental functions, particularly the concept of inter and intrapsychological functioning. Key concepts are extracted from the theoretical section of the book and used as categories for analysis in presenting evidence and new ideas in the second section of the book. In this second part of the book, the authors examine how science knowledge has been constructed within particular countries around the globe, where empirical research in early childhood science education has occurred. The third part of the book examines the nature of the encounter between the teacher and the child during science learning and teaching. In the final part of the book the authors look closely at the range of models and approaches to the teaching of early childhood science that have been made available to early childhood teachers to guide their planning and teaching. They conclude the book with a theoretical discussion of the cultural-historical foundation for early childhood science education, followed by a model of teaching scientific concepts to young children in play-based settings, including homes and community contexts.

Author : Marianne Hedegaard,Marilyn Fleer
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335237586

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EBOOK: Studying Children: A Cultural-Historical Approach by Marianne Hedegaard,Marilyn Fleer Pdf

Studying Children is the first book of its kind to offer a theoretical and practical discussion of how to undertake research using cultural-historical theory when researching the everyday lives of children. The authors discuss the complexities of child development, providing a critique of alternative perspectives of research and notions of development. They provide a number of case studies following researchers in early childhood as they move from a developmental approach to a cultural-historical framework for observing and planning for young children. The chapters: Provide a solid framework for understanding the foundations of this approach Address the importance of viewing research as an interactive technique Offer guidance on how to collect and interpret material Show how to make observations of and interviews with children, within a dialectical research approach Present examples of how to write and present findings using this technique The book is rich with examples of how to undertake specific methods, such as surveys, experiments, case studies, digital video observations, interviews, and children as researchers. Studying Children is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and students working in the field of Early and Middle Childhood at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Author : Wolff-Michael Roth,Maria Ines Mafra Goulart,Katerina Plakitsi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400751866

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Science Education during Early Childhood by Wolff-Michael Roth,Maria Ines Mafra Goulart,Katerina Plakitsi Pdf

Children’s learning and understanding of science during their pre-school years has been a neglected topic in the education literature—something this volume aims to redress. Paradigmatic notions of science education, with their focus on biologically governed development and age-specific accession to scientific concepts, have perpetuated this state of affairs. This book offers a very different perspective, however. It has its roots in the work of cultural-historical activity theorists, who, since Vygotsky, have assumed that any higher cognitive function existed in and as a social relation first. Accepting this precept removes any lower limit we may deem appropriate on children’s cognitive engagement with science-related concepts. The authors describe and analyze the ways in which children aged from one to five grapple with scientific concepts, and also suggest ways in which pre-service and in-service teachers can be prepared to teach in ways that support children’s development in cultural and historical contexts. In doing so, the book affirms the value of cultural-historical activity theory as an appropriate framework for analyzing preschool children’s participation in science learning experiences, and shows that that the theory provides an appropriate framework for understanding learning, as well as for planning and conducting training for pre-school teachers.

Author : Anne Edwards,Marilyn Fleer,Louise Bøttcher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811368264

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Cultural-Historical Approaches to Studying Learning and Development by Anne Edwards,Marilyn Fleer,Louise Bøttcher Pdf

This collection of papers examines key ideas in cultural-historical approaches to children’s learning and development and the cultural and institutional conditions in which they occur. The collection is given coherence by a focus on the intellectual contributions made by Professor Mariane Hedegaard to understandings of children’s learning through the prism of the interplay of society, institution and person. She has significantly shaped the field through her scholarly consideration of foundational concepts and her creative attention to the fields of activity she studies. The book brings together examples of how these concepts have been employed and developed in a study of learning and development. The collection allows the contributing scholars to reveal their reactions to Hedegaard’s contributions in discussions of their own work in the field of children’s learning and the conditions in which it occurs.

Author : Wolff-Michael Roth,Luis Radford
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460915642

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A Cultural-Historical Perspective on Mathematics Teaching and Learning by Wolff-Michael Roth,Luis Radford Pdf

Eighty years ago, L. S. Vygotsky complained that psychology was misled in studying thought independent of emotion. This situation has not significantly changed, as most learning scientists continue to study cognition independent of emotion. In this book, the authors use cultural-historical activity theory as a perspective to investigate cognition, emotion, learning, and teaching in mathematics. Drawing on data from a longitudinal research program about the teaching and learning of algebra in elementary schools, Roth and Radford show (a) how emotions are reproduced and transformed in and through activity and (b) that in assessments of students about their progress in the activity, cognitive and emotional dimensions cannot be separated. Three features are salient in the analyses: (a) the irreducible connection between emotion and cognition mediates teacher-student interactions; (b) the zone of proximal development is itself a historical and cultural emergent product of joint teacher-students activity; and (c) as an outcome of joint activity, the object/motive of activity emerges as the real outcome of the learning activity. The authors use these results to propose (a) a different conceptualization of the zone of proximal development, (b) activity theory as an alternative to learning as individual/social construction, and (c) a way of understanding the material/ideal nature of objects in activity. Wolff-Michael Roth is Lansdowne Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. He researches scientific and mathematical cognition along the life span from cultural-historical and phenomenological perspectives. He has conducted research in science and mathematics classrooms as well as having realized multi-year ethnographic studies of science and mathematics in workplaces and scientific research. Luis Radford is full professor at Laurentian University in Canada. His research interests include the investigation of mathematics thinking and knowing from a cultural-semiotic embodied perspective and the historical and cultural roots of cognition. For many years he has been conducting classroom research with primary and high-school teachers about the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Author : Marilyn Fleer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004520066

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The Role of Imagination in STEM Concept Formation by Marilyn Fleer Pdf

Through the lenses of cultural-historical theory, this book helps readers find out how early childhood science education became established as a field of inquiry.

Author : Liang Li,Gloria Quiñones,Avis Ridgway
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811031977

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Studying Babies and Toddlers by Liang Li,Gloria Quiñones,Avis Ridgway Pdf

The editors of this book have brought together contributors from many parts of the world. As such, the book offers a truly diverse, international flavour reflecting a broad range of research on babies and toddlers. Examining examples from both Eastern and Western cultures, the book’s overarching focus is on relationships, yielding a coherence beneficial to early childhood researchers and educators alike. Employing visual methodologies to help bring the chapters to life, the varied research studies presented concern babies’ and toddlers’ relationships and cultural contexts. Taken together, they offer a unique opportunity to conceptualise the use of a wholeness approach for studying babies and toddlers – our youngest citizens.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781803563565

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Active Learning by Anonim Pdf

This book provides theoretical answers, applied methodological models, and didactic experiences that seek to reflect and analyze the potentialities and challenges of the active learning concept in STEAM disciplines and social sciences education. It also contributes to the understanding, intervention, and resolution of contemporary social problems and to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through the design, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs that incorporate integrated active learning as one of its explanatory axes.

Author : Mariane Hedegaard,Elin Eriksen Ødegaard
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030362713

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Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation by Mariane Hedegaard,Elin Eriksen Ødegaard Pdf

This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement or are demanded of them through undertaking specific tasks within different institutional settings. It shows how the conditions for children’s exploration form a web of activities in different settings with social relationships, local landscapes and artefacts. The book builds on the understanding of cultural traditions as deeply implicated in the developmental processes, meaning that local considerations must be reflected in education for sustainable futures. Therefore the book examines and conceptualises exploration and cultural formation through locally situated cases and navigates toward global educational concepts. The book provides different windows into how children may explore in everyday practice settings in kindergarten, and contributes to a loci-based, ecological, integral knowledge relevant for early childhood education.

Author : Marilyn Fleer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107548701

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Science for Children by Marilyn Fleer Pdf

Designed to prepare future educators for practice, Science for Children challenges students and offers practical classroom-based strategies for their science teaching careers. It presents a wealth of science content across the birth-to-12-years continuum, demonstrating how science can come alive in the classroom.

Author : Katerina Plakitsi,Sylvie Barma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031443770

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Sociocultural Approaches to STEM Education by Katerina Plakitsi,Sylvie Barma Pdf

This book is a contribution to the sociocultural approaches to Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education. It offers a new interpreting theoretical framework coming from the Cultural Historical Psychology. The authors highlight some serious elements of the sociocultural context that mediates learning on STEM or with STEM adds. The book brings together the work of researchers interested in developmental psychology and childhood, with a special focus on using Activity theory and Cultural-historical research approach to unite these two opposing approaches to the study of children. The authors reconsider our relationship and experiencing with technology. It moves the attention from the pure instrumental aspect of technology to a deep human and societal approach. Moreover, the book focuses on the issue of teachers' continuing education in both formal and informal settings is being seen under a sequential system of expansive cycles and the key role of contradictions in transformative educational settings. Overall, this book encourages the academic society to open dialogue with other societies and enhance interdisciplinary research in times of crisis.

Author : Nikolai Veresov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819706921

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Child Development Within Contexts by Nikolai Veresov Pdf

Author : Jean-Marie Boilevin,Alice Delserieys,Konstantinos Ravanis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031081583

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Precursor Models for Teaching and Learning Science During Early Childhood by Jean-Marie Boilevin,Alice Delserieys,Konstantinos Ravanis Pdf

This edited volume provides an in-depth exploration of a theoretical framework supporting Early Childhood Science Education research and teaching best practices. Particularly by presenting the concept of the Precursor Model from an epistemological, psychological, and didactical point of view at Early Childhood Science Education. The book examines and discusses the nature of Precursor Models and their use for early science teaching and learning. It scrutinizes different aspects of the construction of such models applied in early childhood education settings and contexts. Several empirical studies are presented within diverse scientific domains, as well as in international educational contexts. By providing a vary of examples of precursor models it makes this book a great companion for teachers aiming to teach children to understand and reason about topics such as: floating and sinking; shadow formation; water state changes; air; clouds and rain; electricity; inheritance and selection; as well as variation within populations. Finally, this volume supports the development of science education from an early age by using the original framework of a precursor model to mediate teaching and learning science at school during early childhood.

Author : Azra Moeed,Stephen Dobson,Sankari Saha
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789819972869

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Playful Science Investigations in Early Childhood by Azra Moeed,Stephen Dobson,Sankari Saha Pdf

This book showcases a case study of the development of a generalist early childhood education (ECE) teacher into a confident and competent teacher of science in early childhood with support from a mentor. It argues that with guided mentoring, and later, timely support of a mentor as and when required, ECE teachers can deliver the curriculum, teach science by providing opportunities to explore and then build on children’s interest through intentionally planned activities, dialogue, and discourse. It presents a comprehensive literature review and research design including theoretical frames and methodology. It includes a chapter on teacher development and discusses different approaches to science investigations practiced by the teacher in the case study. The book provides evidence of children’s science learning and presents the findings as response to research questions. It also includes a model of teaching as inquiry in the context of early childhood education.

Author : Michalis Kontopodis,Christoph Wulf,Bernd Fichtner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400702431

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Children, Development and Education by Michalis Kontopodis,Christoph Wulf,Bernd Fichtner Pdf

Historical anthropology is a revision of the German philosophical anthropology under the influences of the French historical school of Annales and the Anglo-Saxon cultural anthropology. Cultural-historical psychology is a school of thought which emerged in the context of the Soviet revolution and deeply affected the disciplines of psychology and education in the 20th century. This book draws on these two schools to advance current scholarship in child and youth development and education. It also enters in dialogue with other relational approaches and suggests alternatives to mainstream western developmental theories and educational practices. This book emphasizes communication and semiotic processes as well as the use of artifacts, pictures and technologies in education and childhood development, placing a special focus on active subjectivity, historicity and performativity. Within this theoretical framework, contributors from Europe and the U.S. highlight the dynamic and creative aspects of school, family and community practices and the dramatic aspects of child development in our changing educational institutions. They also use a series of original empirical studies to introduce different research methodologies and complement theoretical analyses in an attempt to find innovative ways to translate cultural-historical and historical anthropological theory and research into a thorough understanding of emerging phenomena in school and after-school education of ethnic minorities, gender-sensitive education, and educational and family policy. Divided into two main parts, “Culture, History and Child Development”, and “Gender, Performativity and Educational Practice”, this book is useful for anyone in the fields of cultural-historical research, educational science, educational and developmental psychology, psychological anthropology, and childhood and youth studies.