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Citation: 

Brophy, Jere, and Janet Alleman. “Primary Grade Students’ Knowledge and Thinking About Native American and Pioneer Homes.” Theory and Research in Social Education 28(1) (2000): 96-120.

Abstract/Summary: 

Finds that student knowledge about shelter is tacit rather than well-developed, frequently distorted by misconceptions, and scattered rather than gathered around big ideas. States that children typically do not acquire learning about cultural universals through everyday experience.

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