Cultural-Historical Psychology
2020. Vol. 16, no. 3, 47–59
doi:10.17759/chp.2020160306
ISSN: 1816-5435 / 2224-8935 (online)
Methodological Challenges of Studying Children in a Living Laboratory: Case example of Conceptual PlayLab
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Keywords: cultural-historical, method, methodology, early childhood, digital, VR, development
Journal rubric: Problems of Cultural-Historical and Activity Psychology
Article type: scientific article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/chp.2020160306
Funding. Funded by the Australian Research Council [FL180100161; DP180101030].
Acknowledgements. We would like to acknowledge the funds received from the Australian Research Council for the establishment of the Conceptual PlayLab and undertaking the programmatic research into imagination in play and imagination in STEM.
For citation: Fleer M., Fragkiadaki G., Rai P. Methodological Challenges of Studying Children in a Living Laboratory: Case example of Conceptual PlayLab. Kul'turno-istoricheskaya psikhologiya = Cultural-Historical Psychology, 2020. Vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 47–59. DOI: 10.17759/chp.2020160306.
A Part of Article
The aim of this paper is to conceptualise the method and methodology of studying in naturalistic settings infants, toddlers and preschoolers’ conceptual development. An approach that can create developmental conditions in a condensed form can give researchers new directions for studying early conceptual development in naturalistic early childhood settings.
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