2019
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13232
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Explain This, Explore That: A Study of Parent–Child Interaction in a Children's Museum

Abstract: Parents visiting a gear exhibit at a children's museum were instructed to encourage their children (N = 65; ages 4–6) to explain, explore, or engage as usual. Instructions led to different patterns of play at the exhibit: Encouragement to explain led to greater discussion of gear mechanisms, whereas encouragement to explore led to more time connecting gears. In the explain condition, parents’ questions predicted their children's discussion and further testing of gears. Questions also predicted the amount of ti… Show more

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“…Parents who are encouraged to use more elaborative talk about science in informal settings, including generating explanations and asking open‐ended questions, have children who seem to be more engaged with play at the exhibit and who remember more from their museum experience at a later date (Benjamin, Haden, & Wilkerson, ; Haden et al, ; Jant, Haden, Uttal, & Babcock, ). Similarly, Willard et al () found that when parents were given conversation cards suggesting that they encourage their children to generate explanations in a gear exhibit, they were more likely to talk about causal mechanisms of the gears. In addition, the frequency of parents' explanatory questions predicted children's testing of gear machines and time spent building their own machines in a follow‐up task.…”
Section: Explanatory Conversation and Causal Thinkingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Parents who are encouraged to use more elaborative talk about science in informal settings, including generating explanations and asking open‐ended questions, have children who seem to be more engaged with play at the exhibit and who remember more from their museum experience at a later date (Benjamin, Haden, & Wilkerson, ; Haden et al, ; Jant, Haden, Uttal, & Babcock, ). Similarly, Willard et al () found that when parents were given conversation cards suggesting that they encourage their children to generate explanations in a gear exhibit, they were more likely to talk about causal mechanisms of the gears. In addition, the frequency of parents' explanatory questions predicted children's testing of gear machines and time spent building their own machines in a follow‐up task.…”
Section: Explanatory Conversation and Causal Thinkingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Children's exploration often leads them to seek and find explanations (Bonawitz, van Schijndel, Friel, & Schulz, ; Legare, ; Mills, Legare, Bills, & Mejias, ). Similarly, explanatory talk often leads to further exploration (Willard et al, ). Here we seek to document the complex dynamics between explanation and exploration in the context of parent–child interaction.…”
Section: Why Exploring and Explaining?mentioning
confidence: 99%
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