Representational systems and practices as learning tools / / Christopher Andersen [and three others].

Learning and teaching complex cultural knowledge calls for meaningful participation in different kinds of symbolic practices, which in turn are supported by a wide range of external representations, as gestures, oral language, graphic representations, writing and many other systems designed to accou...

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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Christopher Andersen , Nora Scheuer , María del Puy Pérez Echeverría and Eva V. Teubal
  • External Representations as Learning Tools / María del Puy Pérez Echeverría and Nora Scheuer
  • From One to Two / Nora Scheuer and Anne Sinclair
  • Young Children’s Developing Ability to Produce Notations in Different Domains — Drawing, Writing, and Numerical / Esti Klein , Eva Teubal and Anat Ninio
  • Space-Time Representations in Young Children / Ornella Robutti
  • Learning Language Through Preschool Science / Lucia French and Shira Peterson
  • Children’s Semantic Representations of a Science Term / Rachel Best , Julie Dockrell and Nick Braisby
  • Children’s Representations in Modelling Scientific Knowledge Construction / Andrés Acher and Maria Arcà
  • Tables as Cognitive Tools in Primary Education / Eduardo Martí
  • Does Drawing Contribute to Learning to Write? Children Think it Does / Nora Scheuer , Montserrat de La Cruz , Juan Ignacio Pozo and María Faustina Huarte
  • The Development of Scientific Inquiry Strategies and Representational Practices in Preadolescents / Merce Garcia-Mila , Christopher Andersen and Nubia E. Rojo
  • The Impact of Labeling on Adults’ and Children’s Ability to Use Geometrical Definitions / Eva Teubal , Ainat Guberman and Jeanne Albert
  • Graphicacy: University Students’ Skills in Translating Information / María del Puy Pérez Echeverría , Yolanda Postigo and Ana Pecharromán
  • What Does “In the Infinite” Mean? / Eduardo F. Mortimer and Christian Buty
  • Representing Organic Molecules / Juan Ignacio Pozo and María Gabriela Lorenzo
  • Writer Development in the Sciences / Ann Montemayor-Borsinger
  • A Reading of the Volume from the Perspective of Symbol-Use / Ricardo Nemirovsky
  • External Representations Critical to Human Intelligence / Katherine Nelson
  • Final Words / Christopher Andersen , Nora Scheuer , María del Puy Pérez Echeverría and Eva V. Teubal
  • Author Index / Christopher Andersen , Nora Scheuer , María del Puy Pérez Echeverría and Eva V. Teubal.