Conceptual Structure in Childhood and Adolescence: The Case of Everyday Physics

by Christine Howe

Christine Howe addresses both psychological and educational concerns by looking in detail at three areas of physics: heat transfer, propelled motion and object flotation. She draws on her own empirical work in this area as well as that of others to build a new model of conceptual growth. Her results are surprising, in some cases supporting work by Piaget and Vygotsky, but in others contradicting them. Conceptual Structure in Childhood and Adolescence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415147298
• ISBN13: 9780415147293
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.3" x 9.3"