A substantial number of empirical studies in the field of Early Childhood Science Education
have explored science concept formation in early childhood educational settings. Most of …

Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to describe children's science content
knowledge and examine the early predictors of science content knowledge in a sample of …

This chapter focuses on teaching science through play in the early years. The chapter starts
with definitions of play from different theoretical perspectives and describes major modern …

The present study reports an empirical investigation into concept formation of young
children. Based on interviews conducted before and after participating in a playfully enacted …

The purpose of this research was to explore children's understandings of everyday, synthetic
and scientific concepts to enable a description of how abstract, verbally taught material …

Early literacy research links children's interest in writing to early literacy development. It is
unclear, however, what kind of learning activities related to writing are interesting to young …

Beginning with the assumption that young children are capable of producing unprecedented
knowledges about science phenomena, this paper explores the complexities of children's …

Many studies have been conducted in recent years on the explanations given by preschool-
age children about different natural phenomena. Nonetheless, very few studies have …

This exploratory case study aims to determine how preschool teachers' epistemological
beliefs influence their pedagogical conceptualizations of science teaching. The research …

The aim of the study was to explore children's learning of natural science, and the authors
chose a literature review as the means to achieve this aim. As the research into children's …