Daftar Isi:1. Learning science in everyday life - a cultural-historical framework 2. How preschools environments afford science learning 3. Imagination and its contributions to learning in science 4. Theoretical and conceptual insights - the young learner in science 5. Knowledge construction in early childhood science education 6. Knowledge construction in culturally situated the human invention of empirical narrative and theoretical knowledges 7. Positioning children in research and the implications for our images of their competences 8. Learning and metaphor bridging the gap between the familiar and the unfamiliar 9. Simile metaphor and learning to perceive the world in functional and culturally relevat ways 10. Learning to read and produce graphical representations in science 11. The nature of science educational encounters 12. Theoretical and conceptual insights - representations in science 13. A cultural-historical model of early childhood science education