Action with friction: a transactional approach to toddlers' physical meaning making of natural phenomena and processes in preschool

European Early Childhood Education Research Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 439-454

  Klaar, Susanne ^a,b   Öhman, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

bodily actions; nature; practical epistemology analysis (PEA); pragmatism; science education; transaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866668211     PISSN: 1350293X     EISSN: 17521807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350293X.2012.704765     Document Type: Article

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