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E-book Primary Physical Science Education : An Imaginative Approach to Encounters with Nature

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This open access book is the first of two volumes that integrates a study of direct encounters with Primary Forces of Nature, Wind, Light, Rain, Heat and Cold, Water, etc., with imaginative narrative forms of communication. The approach developed in this book shows how the growth of cognitive tools (first of mythic and then of romantic forms of understanding) lets children make sense of experiencing physical phenomena. An in-depth description of Fluids, Gravity, and Heat as Basic Forces shows how primary sense-making can evolve into understanding of aspects of physical science, allowing for a nature-based pedagogy and application to environmental systems. The final chapter introduces visual metaphors and theatrical storytelling that are particularly useful for understanding the role of energy in physical processes. It explores how a mythic approach to nature can inform early science pedagogy. This book is of interest to kindergarten and primary school teachers as well as early education researchers and instructors. There is an old, basic cultural form of understanding of the world around us, whichhas been calledmyth,mythic consciousness, ormythic culture. In concrete form,myth comes to us as stories, often as tales of human and naturalForces.1Thisculture or consciousness has much to do with our directexperienceof the worldas expressed inoral language.Mythic consciousness relates reality toimaginative figuresthat populate our mind.In their early years, as their orality develops, children are expected to displayforms of mythic meaning-making that include a number of importantcognitivetoolssuch as basic schematizing abstraction, metaphor, analogy, and story-telling.These tools, and our experience of natural Forces, will find their way into moreformal approaches to understanding nature that develop later in life. In this book, we develop an account of how meaning of our encounters with natureand qualitative understanding of physical science2arise from combining the directexperience of causalForceswith imaginative forms of human expression such asstorytelling and mimesis. We write this from two perspectives:mythic conscious-ness3and moderncontinuum physics.4This may sound rather strange—ancientmythic culture and modern physics do not seem to mesh. We shall see, however,that there is an interesting connection between the two that may very well helpus explore how the understanding of physical processes grows in a child.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

532 FUC p

Penerbit

Switzerland : Springer Nature., 2024

Deskripsi Fisik

229 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783031439537

Klasifikasi

532

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Fluid Mechanics, Liquid Mechanics

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