Young Children's Impressionable Use of Teleology: The Influence of Question Wording and Questioned Topic on Teleological Explanations for Natural Phenomena

Autor/inn/en	Halls, Jonathan Grant; Ainsworth, Shaaron Elizabeth; Oliver, Mary Collette
Titel	Young Children's Impressionable Use of Teleology: The Influence of Question Wording and Questioned Topic on Teleological Explanations for Natural Phenomena
Quelle	In: International Journal of Science Education, 40 (2018) 7, S.808-826 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Halls, Jonathan Grant) ORCID (Ainsworth, Shaaron Elizabeth) ORCID (Oliver, Mary Collette)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0950-0693
DOI	10.1080/09500693.2018.1451008
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Scientific Concepts; Concept Teaching; Early Childhood Education; Questioning Techniques; Hermeneutics; Demonstrations (Educational); Interviews; Scoring Rubrics; Units of Study; Goodness of Fit; Teaching Methods; Foreign Countries; Statistical Analysis; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Befragungstechnik; Fragetechnik; Hermeneutik; Demonstrationsexperiment; Demonstrationsmodell; Demonstrationsunterricht; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Scoring formulas; Auswertungsbogen; Lerneinheit; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausland; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	There is a significant body of research on children's preconceptions concerning scientific concepts and the impact this has upon their science education. One active issue concerns the extent to which young children's explanations for the existence of natural kinds rely on a teleological rationale: for example, rain is for watering the grass, or tigers' stripes are for camouflage. It has been argued that this teleological tendency hampers children's ability to learn about causality in the natural world. This paper investigates two factors (question wording and topic) which it is argued have led to a misestimation of children's teleological tendencies within the area natural phenomena: i.e. those that are time-constrained, natural events or process such as snow, clouds or night. Sixty-six (5-8 years old) children took part in a repeated-measures experiment, answering both open and leading questions across 10 topics of natural phenomena. The findings indicate that children's teleological reasoning may have been overestimated as open-question forms significantly reduced their tendency to answer teleologically. Moreover, the concept of teleology is more nuanced than often suggested. Consequently, young children may be more able to learn about causal explanations for the existence of natural phenomena than the literature implies. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01