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标题：Kindergartners’ Mental Models of the Shape of the Earth
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作者：Mesut Saçkes ; Halil İbrahim Korkmaz
期刊名称：Ilköğretim-Online
印刷版ISSN：1305-3515
出版年度：2015
卷号：14
期号：2
页码：734-743
DOI：10.17051/io.2015.23291
出版社：Ilköğretim-Online
摘要：The purpose of this study was to examine kindergarten children’s conceptual understandings of the shape of theearth and the characteristics of the cognitive representations they constructed. A total of 20 Kindergarten children participated inthe study (age range 60 to 72 months), including 11 boys and 9 girls. A multi-dimensional interview protocol, developed basedon previous studies, was used to collect the study data and children were individually interviewed. Children’s responses wereanalyzed using the model identification methodology. Results demonstrated that while a large proportion of children had naïvemodels of the earth, none of the children had synthetic models. Some children had a unique mental model of the earth, doughnut(simit), which is not exhibited by children from US and Western European countries. The findings of this study support theassumption that children’s conceptual understandings of the shape of the earth may be represented as internally consistent mentalmodels.
关键词：Shape of the Earth; mental models; kindergartners; early childhood education