Knowledge under Construction: The Importance of Play in Developing Children's Spatial and Geometric Thinking

by Daniel Ness and Stephen J. Farenga

Book Overview

Knowledge under Construction is the first to examine young children's spatial and scientific thinking through their architectural constructions with Legos(TM) and blocks. The authors' coding system allows teachers and parents to observe and record children's cognitive behaviors related to spatial thinking. In challenging Piaget's thesis, the authors illuminate our conceptions of children's emergent knowledge of space and scientific inquiry,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742547884
• ISBN13: 9780742547889
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"