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On your mark, get set, explore! Promoting outdoor exploration for early learners across settings
Research supports the benefits of exposing children to nature, yet classroom teachers indicate they do not possess the time, monetary resources, or...
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Measuring Belief in Genetic Determinism: A Psychometric Evaluation of the PUGGS Instrument
Belief in genetic determinism (BGD) has been associated with increased social stereoty** and prejudicial views and consequently is of significant...
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The impact of scripts on blended and online socially shared regulation of learning: A role-playing game theory perspective
Self-regulated learning theory is central to computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) and depends on learner autonomy to create socially...
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Alternative Aesthetics: An Engaged Path to Decolonial Education
AlterNative aesthetics is a concept that investigates the early stages of creating a space for new ideas to explore various possibilities for...
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Settings and Interaction Opportunities in the SA Program
This chapter will adopt an ecological perspective to investigate the interactions between the learner and the environment during the SA program. It...
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Re/Creating ‘Evocative Images’ (sunannguanik iqqaigutinik): Procedural Knowledge and the Art of Memory in the Inuit Practice of String Figure-Making
This paper examines how certain procedural and structural features of string figure-making as practiced in Inuit societies fit into the cosmology and...
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Dynamic Collaborative Learning Based on Recommender Systems and Emergent Collective Intelligence in Online Learning Communities
The presence of interaction and mutual support functionalities offered by online social networks has increased in e-learning systems. Current...
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When Children Do Science: Collaborative Interactions in Preschoolers’ Discussions About Animal Diversity
With the aim of exploring how science is done in collaborative interactions when children discuss reasons for animal diversity, this paper provides...
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Pet Kee** in the Time of COVID-19: The Canine and Feline Companions of Young Children
Amid COVID-19, children’s interactions with pet animals in the household were at times strengthened, strained, or established anew. Extensive periods...
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A Qualitative Exploration of Early Childhood Educators’ Declared Practices when Supporting Preschoolers’ Oral Language Development
Verbal interactions between children and educators can support the language development of preschoolers when conversations are of high quality....
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Teacher–Child Interaction Quality Fosters Working Memory and Social-Emotional Behavior in Two- and-Three-Year-Old Children
How does teacher–child interaction quality in early child care and education settings influence the development of social-emotional skills in...
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Effective Implementation of Animal Assisted Education Interventions in the Inclusive Early Childhood Education Classroom
The use of therapy dogs as an animal-assisted education (AAE) intervention in the early childhood special education classroom (ECSE) is a growing...
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A Content Analysis of the Representation of the Nature of Science in a Turkish Science Textbook
Reconceptualised Family Resemblance Approach to NOS (RFN) is one of the approaches to the nature of science (NOS). This study is a part of the funded...
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EdTech for “Littles”: Using a Learning Engineering Approach to Create a Digital Math Readiness Program for 2- and 3-Year-Old Children
Early mathematics foundation is one of the best predictors of later success in both mathematics and literacy. However, children begin kindergarten...
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Museum Guides’ Views on the Integration of the Nature of Science While Addressing Visitors’ Experiences: The Context of Ecological and Evolutionary Issues
A major goal of natural history museums (NHMs) is to shape visitors’ worldviews about science allowing them to learn about the research process, its...
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Designing for robot-mediated interaction among culturally and linguistically diverse children
This qualitative study explored the design and implementation of a humanoid social robot that mediated collaborative interactions among culturally...
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Playing to Become a Science Person: The Application of Play and Identity Theories in Two Out-of-School Settings
Science education outside of schooling needs to attract its participants in non-compulsory environments. Those of us who develop and work within...
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Critical Education: The Politics of Food
This chapter examines the possibilities and challenges of using critical pedagogy (Freire & Macedo, 1987; Giroux, 2011) to promote student engagement...
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Living in the Ongoing Moment
This summarizing chapter serves as a moment of reflection on the topics brought by the authors in the current, just assembled book and the sudden,...
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Conversation Analysis
As the first of the two background chapters, the chapter begins by locating CA in sociology and ethnomethodology through the work of Garfinkel (1967)...