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Filtering by: Subject Thermodynamics -- Study and teaching -- Computer programs Advisor Dierking, Lynn D. Resource Type Dissertation

"Identity in the making" in an adolescent new media maker experience : the role of interest, figured worlds, and use of authentic tools and practices

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Wyld, Jennifer N.

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Human development researchers consider adolescence a rich time for interest development and identity exploration. A relatively new movement in the Free-Choice Learning (FCL) arena, the Maker movement, offers learners interest-driven, experiential, often collaborative, and process-oriented activities ranging from game design (computer-based and otherwise) and robotics, to sewing LEDs into clothing...

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, and process-oriented activities ranging from game design (computer-based and otherwise) and robotics
Exploring the foundations of science interest development in early childhood

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Pattison, Scott A.

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There is growing evidence that children develop science-related interests in early childhood, before they enter school, and that these interests may have long-term implications for science participation and achievement. Although researchers have made headway in describing interest development in the preschool years, little is currently known about the proximal processes...

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of seven Head Start mothers and their four-year-old daughters. The goal of the study was to