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SUMMARY:Pre-schooler’s Verbal and Behavioural Responses as Indicators of
  Scientific Curiosity and Exploration Abilities - Ornit Spektor Levy Bar I
 lan University Israel
DTSTART:20141118T163000Z
DTEND:20141118T180000Z
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CONTACT:Araceli Hopkins
DESCRIPTION:Enhancing children’s curiosity about the natural world\, fos
 tering exploration skills and scientific thinking are primary goals of sci
 ence education. However\, questions remain regarding the appropriate ways 
 to identify\, nurture\, and study these emotional and cognitive states in 
 young children. Curiosity is a desire to understand various phenomena and 
 quest for knowledge. It plays a fundamental role in human cognitive\, soci
 al\, emotional\, and physiological development\, as well as in education a
 nd scientific discovery. Despite the importance of curiosity and its appli
 cation to education\, empirical studies regarding this issue are scarce. T
 his might be due to the fact that curiosity is unobservable directly\, is 
 not a unitary construct\, and is dynamically changing. I will present stud
 ies using specific protocols we developed to examine pre-schooler’s verb
 al (e.g. explanations\, reasoning\, self-generated figurative expressions)
  and behavioral (active engagement\, sensorimotor interactions) responses 
 while participating in a scientific activity\, as indicators of scientific
  curiosity and exploration abilities. \n\nProfile\nOrnit holds M.Sc. in Mo
 lecular Biology and Ph.D. in Science Education. Her main area of research 
 is young children's scientific exploration and reasoning\, metacognition\,
  self-regulation\, and scientific curiosity. \nAs part of her Ph.D. thesis
 \, she developed the instructional programme "Learning Skills for Science"
  which was funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The Gatsby Science Enhanceme
 nt Programme (SEP) adapted the LSS programme to be implemented in KS4 curr
 iculum. Nowadays\, she continues this area of research and develops instru
 ctional models to meet the needs of all students in the heterogeneous scie
 nce classes and pedagogical strategies for IT integration specifically in 
 1to1 laptop science classes. \n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, (Rm
  GS5\, Donald McIntyre Building)
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