Where the Wild Things Are: Informal Experience and Ecological Reasoning

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 992-1006

  Coley, John D ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEISURE; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RURAL POPULATION; SUBURBAN POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HOBBIES; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RURAL POPULATION; SUBURBAN POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84860482312     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01751.x     Document Type: Article

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