Engineering Playworld--A Model of Practice to Support Children to Collectively Design, Imagine and Think Using Engineering Concepts

Autor/in	Fleer, Marilyn
Titel	Engineering Playworld--A Model of Practice to Support Children to Collectively Design, Imagine and Think Using Engineering Concepts
Quelle	In: Research in Science Education, 52 (2022) 2, S.583-598 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Fleer, Marilyn)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0157-244X
DOI	10.1007/s11165-020-09970-6
Schlagwörter	Preschool Education; Engineering; Preschool Teachers; Preschool Children; Play; Teaching Methods; Teamwork; Problem Solving; Thinking Skills; Design; Creative Thinking + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Maschinenbau; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschule; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Spiel; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Problemlösen; Denkfähigkeit; Kreatives Denken
Abstract	Preschool environments offer an abundance of opportunities for exploring the physical world where children can learn "engineering concepts" and "principles" (theories or laws). Yet how teachers design motivating conditions for engineering thinking has not been fully investigated. The study reported in this paper examined how teachers and young children engaged in engineering principles over 12 months. Digital video observations (123 h) captured the daily interactions of two teachers and 13 children across two classrooms during their engineering sessions. The participants were 8 preschool children aged 4.7-5.5 years and 5 school children aged 5.5-6.4 years. Different to previous studies that focus on engineering affordances during free play, the results identify new play pedagogies that support personally meaningful engineering learning of children in preschools. The new practices, named as an "Engineering PlayWorld," build imaginary situations, where children in teams act 'as if' they are engineers, meeting engineering problems and generating engineering solutions. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01