RT Journal Article
T1 Scaffolding Children’s Production of Representations Along the Three Years of ECE: a Longitudinal Study
A1 Fernández Monteira, Sabela
A1 Jiménez Aleixandre, María Pilar
A1 Siry, Christina
K1 Early childhood education
K1 Representations
K1 Scaffolding
AB We report a longitudinal study carried out along 3 years in an early childhood education(ECE) classroom in which we examined children’s (aged 3–6) engagement with sciencerepresentations. The research questions are as follows: (1) How do children’s sciencerepresentations develop from ECE1 to ECE3? (2) What are the features and affordancesof the teacher’s scaffolding of the production of science representations and how is itfacilitated from the first to the third year of ECE? The participants were 21 children andtheir teacher. The group was involved in long-term science projects that lasted for5 months each. Sessions (N = 30) were recorded and children’s drawings (N = 487)gathered. Data were analyzed using discourse and content analyses, coupled with ananalysis of the intensity of scaffolding. The results indicate that children’s representationsof science phenomena became more complex along several dimensions. We have identified teacher’s scaffolding strategies which supported children’s increasing autonomy inproducing representations. Implications are drawn for teaching science at the ECE levelas well as for further research.
PB Springer
SN 1573-1898, 0157-244X
YR 2020
FD 2020-05-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32331
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32331
LA eng
NO Monteira, S.F., Jiménez-Aleixandre, M.P. & Siry, C. Scaffolding Children’s Production of Representations Along the Three Years of ECE: a Longitudinal Study. Res Sci Educ 52, 127–158 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-020-09931-z
NO Sabela F. Monteira and María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre’s work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Education and Universities, partly funded by the European Regional  Fund (ERDF), grant code PGC-2018-096581-B-C22. Sabela F. Monteira’s work supported by European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) Travel Award 2018.
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026