Articles

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Robots and Rodents: Children's Inferences About Living and Nonliving Kinds (with Susan A. Gelman), Child Development (2007)

This study tests the firm distinction children are said to make between living and nonliving...

 

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New Approaches on the Horizon: Comments on Jaaniste, Hayes, and von Baeyer's “Providing Children With Information About Forthcoming Medical Procedures: A Review and Synthesis” (with Barbara G. Melamed), Clinicla Psychology: Science and Practice (2007)

Jaaniste, Hayes, and von Baeyer contribute to the growing body of work on preparing children...

 

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How To Know What Kids Already Know: Doing Research With Young Children (with Janice Jipson), Childhood Education (2003)
 

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Mother-Child Conversation and Children's Understanding of Biological and Nonbiological Changes in Size (with Maureen A. Callanan), Child Development (2003)

This article explores the ways that mothers and children from primarily middle-income European American backgrounds...

 

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Shared Scientific Thinking in Everyday Parent-Child Activity (with Kevin Crowley, Maureen A. Callanan, Jodi Galco, Karen Topping, and Jeff Shrager), Science Education (2001)

Current accounts of the development of scientific reasoning focus on individual children's ability to coordinate...

 

Contributions to Books

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Maps, Globes, and Videos: Parent-Child Conversations about Representational Objects (with Maureen A. Callanan and Monika Stampf Soennichsen), Perspectives on Children's Object-Centered Learning in Museums, edited by Scott G. Paris (2002)
 

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Explanatory Conversations and Young Children's Developing Scientific Literacy, Designing for Science: Implications from Everyday Classroom and Professional Science: eds. K. Crowley, C.D. Schunn, and T. Okada. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (2001)