What is it about?
The study is about how science learning happens in family learning between parents and young children.
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Why is it important?
The study is important because family experiences can lay the foundation for children’s academic science engagement and influence a longer developmental pathway that grows increasingly sophisticated.
Perspectives
Far too often, in-school learning is valued over informal learning. Family learning and parental support are powerful influences of deeper learning very early in a child's life. We often underestimate the capabilities of young children. Examination of parent-child interactions that take place in everyday science learning has the ability to inform how teachers interact and intervene in children’s science learning in school.
Kathryn J Andrews
SUNY Buffalo
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This page is a summary of: Young children’s emergent science competences in everyday family contexts: a case study, Early Child Development and Care, September 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2017.1379516.
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