Conceptual Structure in Childhood and Adolescence: The Case of Everyday Physics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138647923)

Children's pre-instructional conceptions of the physical world are a far cry from the received wisdom of science; despite their lack of orthodoxy, children's conceptions carry a definite sense of causal mechanism. This sense of mechanism is the focal concern of this book, first published in 1998.