“Doing science” through discourse‐in‐interaction: Young children's science investigations at the early childhood level
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This research investigates the interconnectedness of scientific inquiring at the early childhood level, as we explore the discourse‐in‐interaction processes occurring within small inquiry groups of 5‐ and 6‐year‐old children. The rationale behind this research is to explore the nature of science‐related discourse, and to that end, this work focuses on student‐to‐student interactions as they collaboratively investigate water. As we document the nature of children's ways of explaining, imagining, and representing the properties of water, we demonstrate the constructions of understandings as displayed and emergent from these interactions. The study has generated outcomes about the discursive ways of young children's enacting of knowledge about science, as the analysis reveals that by positioning scientific inquiry as a fluid process children were able to enact science collaboratively and through multimodal means. As such, the study reveals a wide range of indicators to children's understandings about water and to the processes in which students worked together to construct science within discourse‐in‐interaction. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Sci Ed 96:311–336, 2012
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Our study shows, in line with previous ones, that children as young as 6 years old are able to engage in scientific dialogue that is not purely descriptive, performing evidence-based reasoning of a certain complexity and carrying out operations of high cognitive demand.
“Our study shows, in line with previous ones (Kim and Roth 2018;Metz 2011;Siry et al. 2012;Varelas and Pappas 2013), that children as young as 6 years old are able to engage in scientific dialogue that is not purely descriptive, performing evidence-based reasoning of a certain complexity and carrying out operations of high cognitive demand.”
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- Authors
- Siry, C., Ziegler, G., & Max, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Luxembourg (LU)
- Corresponding author
- Siry, Christina
- Venue
- Science Education
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-02-10
- Volume
- 96
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 311-326
- ISSN
- 0036-8326 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-237X
- OpenAlex
- W2169791364
- Cited by
- 99
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 28.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science Education (publishedVersion)
- Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Science Education and Pedagogy
- Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Science Education and Perceptions
- Keywords
- early childhood science, scientific inquiry, student-student interaction, cooperative learning, water properties, children's explanations, multimodal representation, scientific knowledge construction
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