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Farris, Amy Voss; Sengupta, Pratim – Educational Theory, 2016
In this essay, Amy Voss Farris and Pratim Sengupta argue that a democratic approach to children's computing education in a science class must focus on the "aesthetics" of children's experience. In "Democracy and Education," Dewey links "democracy" with a distinctive understanding of "experience." For Dewey,…
Descriptors: Children, Computation, Thinking Skills, Science Education
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Clark, Douglas B.; Sengupta, Pratim; Brady, Corey E.; Martinez-Garza, Mario M.; Killingsworth, Stephen S. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2015
Background: In this paper, we investigate the relationship between theory and design in the context of creating digital games to support children's development of scientific expertise. Synthesis: Theoretically, we consider two frameworks--Knowledge in Pieces (or KiP) and Science as Practice (or SaP). While KiP is a theory about the structure of…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Video Games, Computer Games, Science Education