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preschool curiosity

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Photorealistic editorial photograph of a preschool child and parent exploring an Earth-without-humans question across a ten-month curiosity timeline
Conference Paper2021
Conference Paper 33

A ten-month mother–child case traced how scientific curiosity changed over time

Mamta Shah, Amanda Barany, Amanda Siebert-Evenstone

2nd International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (ICQE 2020)

How sustained family engagement can reveal changing domain-related scientific curiosity in early childhood. The case documents evolving connections in scientific questioning and illustrates mechanisms through which deep curiosity may be sustained over a longer period. A self-ethnographic dyad offers depth but cannot estimate typical preschool development, separate parent influence from maturation, or support broad causal generalization.

preschool curiosityparent-child interactionself-ethnography
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