Understanding the cultural foundations of children's biological knowledge: Insights from everyday cognition research

ICLS 2006 - International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1029-1035

  Bell, Philip ^a   Bricker, Leah A ^a   Lee, Tiffany R ^a   Reeve, Suzanne ^a   Toomey, Heather Zimmerman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; CULTURAL GROUPS; ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES; LEARNER-CENTERED; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS; RESEARCH FOCUS; SCIENCE CENTERS; SOCIAL CONTEXT;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84884328179     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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