The Development of the Concept of "Matter": A Cross-Age Study of How Children Describe Materials

Autor/inn/en	Krnel, Dusan; Watson, Rod; Glazar, Sasa A.
Titel	The Development of the Concept of "Matter": A Cross-Age Study of How Children Describe Materials
Quelle	In: International Journal of Science Education, 27 (2005) 3, S.367-383 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0950-0693
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Scientific Concepts; Concept Formation; Preschool Children; Interviews; Child Development; Age; Schemata (Cognition); Slovenia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Kindesentwicklung; Alter; Lebensalter; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Slowenien
Abstract	The development of the concept of matter was explored by interviewing 84 children aged 3-13 in Slovenia. Children were asked to describe objects and substances placed in front of them. Children's responses were coded and explored for patterns indicating development with age. The patterns of responses indicate that by acting on objects and substances students first developed prototypes for substances. This was followed by increasing use of properties to describe objects and substances leading to a growing awareness of the distinction between the intensive properties of matter and the extensive properties of objects. Children's descriptions were analysed from a Piagetian perspective, which hypothesizes that the epigenesis of concepts takes place through children acting on the world. Through their actions children gradually develop more elaborated schema that enable them to distinguish between extensive and intensive properties, and hence between object and matter. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10