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ERIC Number: EJ622129
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0157-244X
Deconstructing Learning in Science--Young Children's Responses to a Classroom Sequence on Evaporation.
Tytler, Russell; Peterson, Suzanne
Research in Science Education, v30 n4 p339-55 2001
Tracks five-year-old children's ideas by a range of means during and subsequent to a classroom sequence on evaporation. Explores the relationship between social and individual perspectives on learning, and questions some assumptions underlying conceptual change research. Analyzes the children's explanations of various evaporation phenomena over time. (Contains 29 references.) (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Epistemology, Learning Processes, Primary Education, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Young Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Conceptual Change; Evaporation