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Direct linkVlok, Milandre; de Witt, Marike W. – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
This article explains the naive theory of biology that the pre-school child uses to explain the cause of death. The empirical investigation showed that the young participants do use a naive theory of biology to explain function and do make reference to "vitalistic causality" in explaining organ function. Furthermore, most of these…
Descriptors: Biology, Grounded Theory, Death, Phenomenology
