TY - GEN
T1 - Integrating narrative into the design of preschool science programs
AU - Plummer, Julia
AU - Cho, Kyungjin
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the National Science Foundation under grant #DRL-1217441. We also thank the educators and children we worked with on this project and Madison Botch for help defining the narrative codes.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We investigated how narratives from science storybooks can become tools to structure and problematize science phenomena for preschool-age children during museum programs. Analysis of video from four programs with preschool-aged audiences suggests the story-driven investigations provided opportunities for preschool-children to co-construct evidence-based explanations with educators through the mediation of elements which arose from the narrative-infused design. We present the relative affordances of salient mediating processes influenced by the storybooks’ narratives, including the structure of the investigations, discourse, gesture use, and generation of representations.
AB - We investigated how narratives from science storybooks can become tools to structure and problematize science phenomena for preschool-age children during museum programs. Analysis of video from four programs with preschool-aged audiences suggests the story-driven investigations provided opportunities for preschool-children to co-construct evidence-based explanations with educators through the mediation of elements which arose from the narrative-infused design. We present the relative affordances of salient mediating processes influenced by the storybooks’ narratives, including the structure of the investigations, discourse, gesture use, and generation of representations.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85102689524
T3 - Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL
SP - 1585
EP - 1588
BT - 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences
A2 - Gresalfi, Melissa
A2 - Horn, Ilana Seidel
PB - International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
T2 - 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2020
Y2 - 19 June 2020 through 23 June 2020
ER -