This paper reviews astronomy education research carried out among school students,
teachers, and museum visitors over a 35‐year period from 1974 until 2008. One hundred …

One of the major discoveries in cognitive psychology, cognitive development, and science
education in the last half century has been the understanding that children before instruction …

Research Findings Grounded on personification storytelling, this intervention study
introduced a science program including extensive astronomy concepts to 24 children (4–5 …

In the present study, we test the effectiveness of a teaching intervention aiming at
acquainting children aged four to six years with the concept of the sphericity of the earth and …

In an attempt to understand the natural world's phenomena, young children form their
perceptions of different aspects of the macrocosm, which they contrast with new scientific …

Sociocultural theorists recognise that cognition is not an individual construction, but is
distributed across people as they participate in culturally relevant activities. Thus, rather than …

Findings from a quasi‐experimental study of children's ideas about the solar system and
how these ideas changed in response to a 10‐week intervention period of formal astronomy …

Children's understandings of the shape and relative sizes of the Earth, Sun and Moon have
been extensively researched and in a variety of ways. Much is known about the confusions …

The present research investigates the perceptions of kindergarten students, and pre-service
teachers from the Early Childhood Education Department at the University of Athens …

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the 5E learning model affects learning
about the Solar System when an analogical model is utilized in teaching. The data were …