naa a22 4500 51078125X CHVBK 20180411083248.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11422-012-9415-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11422-012-9415-1 Chinese and Australian children's understandings of the Earth: a cross cultural study of conceptual development [Elektronische Daten] [Ying Tao, Mary Oliver, Grady Venville] The purpose of this study was to explore Chinese and Australian primary children's conceptual understandings of the Earth. The research was conducted in the interpretive paradigm and was designed to be descriptive with comparative and cross sectional elements. Participants were Year 3 and Year 6 children from three schools in Hunan Province, central south China (n=38) and Year 3 and Year 6 children from three schools in Western Australia (n=36). In-depth interviews including drawings were carried out to explore the participants' conceptual understandings of the Earth's shape, gravity, day/night cycle and seasons. The results showed that, regardless of different cultures, children from the same year group constructed similar concepts about the Earth. The Year 3 children were more likely than the Year 6 children to demonstrate intuitive conceptions of a round and flat Earth. The Year 6 children were more likely to demonstrate consistent understandings of a spherical Earth. The findings supported the universality of entrenched presuppositions hypothesis. Cultural mediation was found to have a subtle impact on children's understanding of the Earth. A model of conceptual development is proposed. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012 Cross cultural nationallicence Conceptual development nationallicence Earth science nationallicence Primary children nationallicence Tao Ying Graduate School of Education (M428), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut Oliver Mary Graduate School of Education (M428), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut Venville Grady Graduate School of Education (M428), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut Cultural Studies of Science Education Springer Netherlands 8/2(2013-06-01), 253-283 1871-1502 8:2<253 2013 8 11422 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-012-9415-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-012-9415-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tao Ying Graduate School of Education (M428), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Oliver Mary Graduate School of Education (M428), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Venville Grady Graduate School of Education (M428), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cultural Studies of Science Education Springer Netherlands 8/2(2013-06-01), 253-283 1871-1502 8:2<253 2013 8 11422 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer