On the Complex Relation Between Cognitive Developmental Research and Children’s Science Curricula

摘要: My earlier article (Metz, 1995) identified several assumptions about elementary school children’s scientific reasoning abilities that have frequently been used for the purpose of framing “developmental appropriate” science curricula. That traced origin those to an interpretation a segment Piaget’s writings and then critiqued basis corpus, as well contemporary cognitive developmental research literature. Given constituted primary base on which I these formulated alternative recommendations, lam surprised by Deanna Kuhn’s (1997) contention could be read suggesting literature has “failed” educators they would advised look elsewhere inform their curricular design. Nevertheless, do consider relation between research, embodied in tradition, children...