Preschool children (N=23) and fifth-grade children (N=23) and their mothers judged the acceptability of corporal punishment as a function of the type of transgression (acting danerously, violating a social rule, or violating a moral precept) and discipline agent. Children of both ages and their mothers discriminated among different types of…

Over the past 10 years, numerous empirical investigations of learning in physics have been carried out at the Institute of Physics Education (IPE) at the University of Bremen in Germany. The objectives of these investigations were: (1) to describe in detail individual learning processes; (2) to construct theoretical principles of individual…