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Supporting Scientific Conceptual Consciousness or Learning in ‘a Roundabout Way’ in Play‐based Contexts
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This paper examined teacher philosophy and pedagogical practices within the context of an analysis of children's concept formation within playful early childhood settings and found that teacher philosophy about how young children learn is a significant contributing factor to learning in science.Abstract:
Little change has been noted over 10 years of research into teacher knowledge and confidence to teach science in the early and primary years of schooling. There is a significant body of research demonstrating that early childhood and primary teachers lack confidence and competence in teaching science. However, much of this research blames the victim, and offers little analysis for the systemic reasons for teachers’ confidence and competence in science education other than a lack of science knowledge. This paper reports on a study that examined teacher philosophy and pedagogical practices within the context of an analysis of children’s concept formation within playful early childhood settings. Through teacher interviews, video recordings of science play, and photographic documentation of children’s science activities in one rural preschool, it was noted that teacher philosophy about how young children learn is a significant contributing factor to learning in science. It is argued that teacher philosophy ma...read more
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幼兒教育（Early Childhood Education）
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a foundation for understanding and guiding children's behaviour, and students learn the principles of guidance and strategies needed to guide behaviour in positive ways, focusing on understanding behaviour and implementing techniques that foster positive relationships and self-esteem, and create opportunities for learning.
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Early Learning and Development: Cultural-historical Concepts in Play
Marilyn Fleer,Mariane Hedegaard +1 more
TL;DR: Early Learning and Development as mentioned in this paper provides a unique synthesis of cultural-historical theory from Vygotsky, Elkonin and Leontiev in the twentieth century to the ground-breaking research of scholars such as Siraj-Blatchford, Kratsova and Hedegaard today.
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What is science in preschool and what do teachers have to know to empower children
TL;DR: In this paper, the purpose of teaching science in preschool and what competences preschool teachers need in order to conduct science activities in the classroom are discussed, as well as the empirical data.
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Effectiveness of a curricular and professional development intervention at improving elementary teachers' science content knowledge and student achievement outcomes: Year 1 results
TL;DR: In this paper, a curricular and professional development intervention consisting of a fifth grade science curriculum, teacher workshops, and school site support was studied to determine its effect on teachers' science content knowledge as measured by a science knowledge test, a questionnaire, and classroom observations.
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Creative Little Scientists: exploring pedagogical synergies between inquiry-based and creative approaches in Early Years science
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the teaching and learning of science and creativity in Early Years education and highlighted the potential existence of a number of pedagogical synergies between inquiry-based science, and creativity-based approaches in early years education.
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Thought and language
TL;DR: Kozulin has created a new edition of the original MIT Press translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar that restores the work's complete text and adds materials that will help readers better understand Vygotsky's meaning and intentions as discussed by the authors.
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Thought and language
TL;DR: From aphasics' self records, common experience, changes in signification of sentences according to a verbal or non-verbal context, animals and non speaking children performances, it seems possible to get some evidence that thought is distinct from language even though there is a permanent interaction between both in normal adult human beings.
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What Makes Professional Development Effective? Results From a National Sample of Teachers
TL;DR: The authors used a large-scale empirical comparison of effects of different characteristics of professional development on teachers' learning, and found that content knowledge, opportunities for active learning and coherence with other learning activities significantly affect teacher learning.
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Play and Its Role in the Mental Development of the Child
TL;DR: In this article, play and its role in the preschooler's development are discussed. But play is not the leading form of activity for a child of this age, or is it simply the predominant form.