Overview
- Includes a complete summary of research on children's ideas about science concepts across all domains as well as a summary of research on children's process and technology skills
- Provides an analysis of science instructional interventions in early childhood settings
- Includes a critical analysis of methodologies used in science education research in early childhood contexts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book emphasizes the significance of teaching science in early childhood classrooms, reviews the research on what young children are likely to know about science and provides key points on effectively teaching science to young children. Science education, an integral part of national and state standards for early childhood classrooms, encompasses not only content-based instruction but also process skills, creativity, experimentation and problem-solving. By introducing science in developmentally appropriate ways, we can support young children’s sensory explorations of their world and provide them with foundational knowledge and skills for lifelong science learning, as well as an appreciation of nature. This book emphasizes the significance of teaching science in early childhood classrooms, reviews the research on what young children are likely to know about science, and provides key points on effectively teaching young children science. Common research methods used in the reviewed studies are identified, methodological concerns are discussed and methodological and theoretical advances are suggested.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Research in Early Childhood Science Education
Editors: Kathy Cabe Trundle, Mesut Saçkes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9505-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9504-3Published: 28 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0025-0Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9505-0Published: 15 April 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 390
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Early Childhood Education, Learning & Instruction