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Family Science Talk in Museums: Predicting Children's Engagement From Variations in Talk and Activity.
- Source :
- Child Development; Sep/Oct2017, Vol. 88 Issue 5, p1492-1504, 13p, 1 Color Photograph, 5 Charts, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Children's developing reasoning skills are better understood within the context of their social and cultural lives. As part of a research-museum partnership, this article reports a study exploring science-relevant conversations of 82 families, with children between 3 and 11 years, while visiting a children's museum exhibit about mammoth bones, and in a focused one-on-one exploration of a "mystery object." Parents' use of a variety of types of science talk predicted children's conceptual engagement in the exhibit, but interestingly, different types of parent talk predicted children's engagement depending on the order of the two activities. The findings illustrate the importance of studying children's thinking in real-world contexts and inform creation of effective real-world science experiences for children and families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FAMILY communication
SCIENCE & civilization
CONVERSATION -- Social aspects
PARENT-child relationships
SCIENCE museums
REASONING in children
MAMMOTHS
AMERICAN children
TWENTY-first century
U.S. states
SOCIAL conditions of children
CHILD development
COMMUNICATION
COMPARATIVE studies
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL cooperation
MUSEUMS
RESEARCH
SCIENCE
THOUGHT & thinking
EVALUATION research
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00093920
- Volume :
- 88
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Child Development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 124970330
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12886