Preschool Children Science Mental Representations: The Sound in Space

Autor/inn/en	Ravanis, Konstantinos; Kaliampos, George; Pantidos, Panagiotis
Titel	Preschool Children Science Mental Representations: The Sound in Space
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 11 (2021), Artikel 242 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ravanis, Konstantinos) ORCID (Kaliampos, George) ORCID (Pantidos, Panagiotis)
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Scientific Concepts; Acoustics; Schemata (Cognition); Physical Sciences; Kindergarten; Knowledge Level; Early Childhood Education; Science Education; Foreign Countries; Greece + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Akustik; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Natural sciences; Naturwissenschaften; Naturwissenschaft; Wissensbasis; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Ausland; Griechenland
Abstract	The aim of the current study was to examine the way in which preschool children deal with the concept of sound. For this purpose, a study was carried out in the context of detecting and categorizing the mental representations among young children of sounds which propagate through space from source to the receiver. Specifically, 91 preschool children aged 5-6 years voluntarily participated in individual semi-structured interviews which were carried out by three researchers in a special area of kindergartens. During these interviews, the children were asked to express their views on the three following axes: the concept of sound itself; the subjective characteristics of sound; and the phenomenon of the production and propagation of sound. The results of the research showed that while a small percentage of children recognized the propagation of sound in space, the vast majority of them associated sound with either the object that produced it or with the object that received it. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01