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ERIC Number: EJ406341
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Intellectual Conventions versus Matters of Substance: Elementary School Students as Curriculum Theorists.
Nicholls, John G.; Thorkildsen, Theresa A.
American Educational Research Journal, v26 n4 p533-44 Win 1989
Sixty-six elementary school students were interviewed about substantive and conventional aspects of academic knowledge. Even first graders distinguished intellectual conventions from the substance of the disciplines and construed the conventions as arbitrary social practices to foster communication. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Course Content, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Interviews, Knowledge Level
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Intellectual Conventions