Constructing Science: Connecting Casual Reasoning to Scientific Thinking in Young Children

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Deena Skolnick Weisberg David M. Sobel

Constructing Science

Connecting Casual Reasoning to Scientific Thinking in Young Children

Deena Skolnick Weisberg, David M. Sobel

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MIT Press
15 November 2022

Child & developmental psychology

An examination of children's causal reasoning capacities and how those capacities serve as the foundation of their scientific thinking.

An examination of children's causal reasoning capacities and how those capacities serve as the foundation of their scientific thinking.

Young children have remarkable capacities for causal reasoning, which are part of the foundation of their scientific thinking abilities. In Constructing Science, Deena Weisberg and David Sobel trace the ways that young children's sophisticated causal reasoning abilities combine with other cognitive, metacognitive, and social factors to develop into a more mature set of scientific thinking abilities. Conceptualizing scientific thinking as the suite of skills that allows people to generate hypotheses, solve problems, and explain aspects of the world, Weisberg and Sobel argue that understanding how this capacity develops can offer insights into how we can become a more scientifically literate society.

Investigating the development of causal reasoning and how it sets the stage for scientific thinking in the elementary school years and beyond, Weisberg and Sobel outline a framework for understanding how children represent and learn causal knowledge and identify key variables that differ between causal reasoning and scientific thinking. They present empirical studies suggesting ways to bridge the gap between causal reasoning and scientific thinking, focusing on two factors- contextualization and metacognitive thinking abilities. Finally, they examine children's explicit understanding of such concepts as science, learning, play, and teaching.

By: Deena Skolnick Weisberg, David M. Sobel
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262044684
ISBN 10: 0262044684
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 15 November 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Deena Skolnick Weisberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Villanova University, where she directs the Scientific Thinking and Representation (STAR) Laboratory. David M. Sobel is Professor in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University, where he directs the Causality and Mind Lab. He is coeditor of Cognitive Development in Museum Settings- Relating Research to Practice.