A Cultural-Historical Study of Children Learning Science Foregrounding Affective Imagination in Play-based Settings /

• Main Authors: Fleer, Marilyn (Author), Pramling, Niklas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Cultural Studies of Science Education, 11
• Subjects: Education.; Science education.; Child development.; Science Education.; Childhood Education.; Learning & Instruction.

This book provides an account of children’s science learning beyond the traditional constructivist and social-constructivist view. It conceptualises science as a body of knowledge that humans have constructed (historically) and reconstructed (contemporary) to meet human needs. As such, this human in...