Introduction
Much recent research in early childhood education has adopted a sociocultural theoretical framing
to attempts to understand children’s development. This article discusses aspects of young children’s
cognitive development, specifically particular thinking and learning processes that may
connect their interests and efforts to make sense of their worlds. The article first describes the
context in which working theories have become a pedagogical consideration in a national curriculum.
As a relatively underdeveloped but promising notion, the concept is theorised in relation to
the work of Claxton (1990), Lindfors (1999), Rogoff (1990, 2003), Rogoff et al. (2003) and Wells
(1999) in order to embody the potential of this construct to describe complex contributors to elements
of children’s thinking, inquiry and knowledge building. Examples of young children’s
IntroductionMuch recent research in early childhood education has adopted a sociocultural theoretical framingto attempts to understand children’s development. This article discusses aspects of young children’scognitive development, specifically particular thinking and learning processes that mayconnect their interests and efforts to make sense of their worlds. The article first describes thecontext in which working theories have become a pedagogical consideration in a national curriculum.As a relatively underdeveloped but promising notion, the concept is theorised in relation tothe work of Claxton (1990), Lindfors (1999), Rogoff (1990, 2003), Rogoff et al. (2003) and Wells(1999) in order to embody the potential of this construct to describe complex contributors to elementsof children’s thinking, inquiry and knowledge building. Examples of young children’s
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