Primary-Grade Students’ Knowledge and Thinking About the Economics of Meeting Families’ Shelter Needs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8221546 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jere Brophy (Michigan State University, corresponding author), Janet Alleman (Michigan State University) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 423-468 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Educational Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8312 • E-ISSN: 1935-1011 |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/00028312039002423 |
| OpenAlex | W2020803854 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
The traditional K–3 social studies curriculum has focused on cultural universals, including shelter. To gather information about children’s prior knowledge and thinking (including their misconceptions) about economic aspects of this topic, individual interviews were conducted with 216 K–3 students. Their responses indicated that most of the students understood that people have to pay for shelter and that most people prefer houses to apartments. Some students confused apartments with hotels, and most were vague about what is involved in renting apartments and why some people choose to do so. Only a few understood that renting is a profit-making business or that people can get mortgage loans to allow them to move into a house before they have accumulated its full purchase price. These and other findings are discussed with reference to curriculum and instruction in the primary grades
Curriculum · Grading (engineering · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Renting · Sociology · Educational Assessment and Pedagogy · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Engineering · Psychology · School Choice and Performance
Qualitative evaluation and research methods
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Trivial and Noninformative Content of Elementary Social Studies
Primary Understanding
The Child's Political World
The Relationship between Historical Response and Narrative in a Sixth-Grade Classroom
Primary-Grade Students' Knowledge and Thinking about Native American and Pioneer Homes
Children's ideas about the bank
Third graders' acquisition of knowledge of banking
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |