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The Child’s world : triggers for learning

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Young people who live most of their lives in the 21st centuryface dilemmas hardly experienced in the 20th century world:the rapid compression of space and time; an unprecedented rateof cultural and technological change; the dissolution of manytraditional boundaries. Already, children live in a world unknownto us in our childhood - they 'surf the net', play virtual gamesand interact with cyberspace. What skills are  Read more...

Author(s): Margaret Robertson, Rodney Gerber
Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Research
Year: 2000

Language: English
Pages: 378
City: Camberwell, Vic.

Preliminaries
Contents
CHAPTER 1: CHILDREN AND EVERYDAY COGNITION
CHAPTER 2: ENVIRONMENTAL COGNITION FOR CHILDREN'S LEARNING
CHAPTER 3: TOWARDS A GLOBAL VIEW
CHAPTER 4: PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN
CHAPTER 5: CHILDREN'S LIFE-WORLDS
CHAPTER 6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN
CHAPTER 7: IDENTITY-BUILDING
CHAPTER 8: EXPLORING GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN'S MEMORIES OF PLACE
CHAPTER 9: CHILDREN'S THINKING ABOUT GRAPHICS
CHAPTER 10: CHILDREN'S UNDERSTANDING OF COMPLEX GRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS
CHAPTER 11: HELPING CHILDREN TO ANALYSE A CHANGING WORLD. CHAPTER 12: PATTERNS AND RELATIONSHIPS IN VISUAL-SPATIAL THINKINGCHAPTER 13: 'I HAVEN'T FULLY DISCOVERED IT YET'
CHAPTER 14: DEVELOPING SPATIAL INDEPENDENCE AMONG CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
CHAPTER 15: ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOURS: CROSS-CULTURAL VIEWS
CHAPTER 16: CHILDREN'S PERCEPTIONS OF SPACE
CHAPTER 17: PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SITUATED LEARNING
CONCLUSION
Index.