dc.contributor.author | Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Vosniadou, S. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Hawks, JD | en |
dc.creator | Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N. | en |
dc.creator | Vosniadou, S. | en |
dc.creator | Hawks, JD | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-27T10:21:39Z | |
dc.date.available | JUN | |
dc.date.available | 2017-07-27T10:21:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0256-2928 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://gnosis.library.ucy.ac.cy/handle/7/37247 | |
dc.description.abstract | The purpose of the present study was to examine the models of the earth and the day/night cycle formed by American-Indian children. Twenty-six Lakota/Dakota children in the first, third, and fifth grades were interviewed about the shape of the earth and the causes of the day/night cycle. The results indicated that the children used a small range of relatively well-defined models of the earth and the day/night cycle similar to those constructed by Euro-American children as well as by Indian, Greek and Samoan children investigated in previous studies. All these models are similar in that they agree with the presuppositions of a framework theory of physics that appear to constrain them. The Lakota/Dakota children, however showed a preference for a particular synthetic model of the earth, the hollow sphere, which comes closest to the description of the shape of the earth provided in Lakota mythology. In addition, the younger Lakota/Dakota children used some animistic-psychological explanations of the day/night cycle that were absent in our previous samples. We may therefore conclude that while the process of knowledge acquisition in astronomy follows a similar path in all children regardless of cultural variables, cultural cosmology influences both the specific models constructed as well as the modes of explanation provided for astronomical phenomena. | en |
dc.source | European Journal of Psychology of Education | en |
dc.title | Conceptual change in astronomy: Models of the earth and of the day/night cycle in American-Indian children | en |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
dc.description.volume | 12 | |
dc.description.issue | 2 | |
dc.description.startingpage | 159 | |
dc.description.endingpage | 184 | |
dc.author.faculty | Σχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / Faculty of Social Sciences and Education | |
dc.author.department | Τμήμα Ψυχολογίας / Department of Psychology | |
dc.type.uhtype | Article | en |
dc.description.notes | PT: J | en |
dc.contributor.orcid | Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N. [0000-0003-3650-8108] | |
dc.gnosis.orcid | 0000-0003-3650-8108 | |