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Peer reviewedSamaragungavan, Ala; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1996
Study reports data on the acquisition of knowledge about astronomy in children from India, and the cosmological models they construct. Found that Indian children's cosmologies honor a variety of implicit assumptions governing the construction of initial cosmological models and that folk models are also incorporated to provide a psychologically…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
