Research Assistant
Salary: £23,661-£26,629 pa
INSTRUCT Lab: Young Children's Reasoning about Everyday Chemistry
Applications are invited for a Research Assistant to work on a three-year project that is aimed specifically at exploring how young children reason about everyday chemistry, by integrating cognitive psychology paradigms with education and chemistry approaches, and aims to explore children's knowledge of how substances mix prior to systematic chemistry instruction. Children's chemistry understanding is usually studied in a qualitative manner, leading to an impression of fairly late emerging knowledge. Instead, this project will use quantitative and largely non-verbal, cognitive psychology methods because of their effectiveness at uncovering early understanding in other areas. The aim is to learn about children's natural approach to chemical phenomena before instruction.
Appointment to this post will be subject to an enhanced CRB disclosure.
Informal enquiries should be directed to the project supervisor Dr Michelle Ellefson (mre33@cam.ac.uk).
Further details and application procedure are available below.
Limit of tenure: Post available for up to 30 months
Quote Reference: JR08090
Closing Date: 23 May 2011
Further Particulars: http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/about/jobs/applications/INSTRUCTFP.pdf
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