While coexistence is often seen as posing a competition or tension between two explanatory
systems, at least in the case of functional and mechanistic explanations, fruitful cooperation …

The primary activity in the learning and learning process to accomplish educational
objectives is educational contact. When conditions were favourable during COVID-19 …

Hintergrund: Laut aktuellen Schweizer Lehrplänen sollen Schüler* innen bereits in den
ersten beiden Zyklen (Kin-dergarten bis Ende Primarstufe) evolutionsbezogene Konzepte …

A great deal can be learned by observing children's free engagement with an exhibit,
including their conversations with accompanying adults. One challenge is that many …

The goal of science education is to teach children scientific content and develop their
reasoning skills. Children enter school with early prior beliefs that can interfere with the …

[EN] This study analyses the depictions that a sample of young children completed to
express their knowledge of plant life at two different times, two years apart. The pictorial …

Zusammenfassung Die Evolutionstheorie ist das Kernstück der modernen
Lebenswissenschaften. Nicht nur die Kenntnis wesentlicher Aussagen der …

Biologists, lay adults, and children alike value causal explanations of how biological entities
work. Despite this, elementary school science education has historically lacked mechanistic …

Our beliefs about the world are prone to change as we encounter information that is
incompatible with existing knowledge. Prior research has dominantly focused on children's …

Our beliefs about the world are prone to change as we encounter information that is
incompatible with existing knowledge. Prior research has dominantly focused on children's …