Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0558890

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0558890

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The sociocultural construction of early childhood science learning: Learning of scientific concepts within situated playful encounters in early childhood contexts. As a result of large-scale international and intensive neuroscientific research, it is now widely recognized that the early childhood period is one of the most critical periods of a child's development and education. Quality educational input within the first five years of a child's life has been shown to have sustained long term social and emotional outcomes, and to result in improved educational opportunities and life chances for all children. Gaining a better understanding about how scientific learning can be organized within playful early childhood contexts would lead to more appropriate models for science teaching for Australian early childhood teachers, more science being taught, and a more scientific literate population.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2005

End Date: 20-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $105,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Curriculum and Pedagogy | Curriculum Studies: English Education | Curriculum Studies: Science Education | Education Studies Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Primary education | Early childhood education |

Other Keywords

Curriculum Studies: English Education | Curriculum Studies: Science Education | Curriculum and Pedagogy | Early childhood education | Education Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Primary education

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