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Dempster, Edith; Stears, Michèle – Journal of Biological Education, 2014
The purpose of the study is to find out what a group of seven-year-old South African children understand of their internal anatomy. The research is based on the premise that young children obtain most of their science knowledge through personal experience. Drawings are used to determine the level of young children's knowledge of systems and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Freehand Drawing, Childrens Art, Anatomy
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van Staden, Christie J. S. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2006
This article, which is a revised version of a paper presented at the XXIV World Congress of OMEP conference in Melbourne in July 2004, reports on a study that explored young children's (5-9 years) vision of their future environment in South Africa--as temporal dimension, illustrating their conceptual understanding of this concept. A sample of 320…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Rural Areas