Mental models of the earth: A study of conceptual change in childhood

1992/10/01 by Stella Vosniadou, William F Brewer, William F. Brewer · 1,670 citations
Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Animal and Plant Science Education #Child and Animal Learning Development #Computer science #Conceptual change #Construct (python library) #Developmental psychology #Earth (classical element) #Epistemology #Figure of the Earth #Geodesy #Geology #Mathematics #Mathematics education #Philosophy #Presupposition #Psychology #Science Education and Pedagogy

paper · doi:10.1016/0010-0285(92)90018-w

published in Cognitive Psychology 24(4), 535-585 (Elsevier BV)

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