Does Air Exist in Vases? Mental Representations of Children 4-6 Years Old
Evanthia-Markella Kontili,
George Kaliampos,
Konstantinos Ravanis
Abstract:Introduction. One of the prominent domains of research in the context of Early Childhood Science Education is the study of mental representations of 3-8 years old children about phenomena and concepts of science, as they are formed in school knowledge. Along this line, research has been conducted on various fields. Among them a small number of studies has turned to the concept of air. Basic mental representations of air indicate that young children do not recognize it as a material entity and are strongly infl… Show more
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