The Development and the Formation of the Recognition of Nature (Part II) : The Development of Children's Conception of Life and the Design of Science Currioulum

Abstract

The present study aimed at investigating the development of children's conception of life, and putting the developmental study to the guide of curricular design. Children's conception of life divides into four successive steps, i.e., the conception of personified life, vitalism, mechanism, and the conception of life regarded as a system. This paper gives a brief illustration of elementary and secondary biology curriculum materials.