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Hi, I'm Scientific American Podcast editor Steve Merski. And here's a short piece from the April issue of the magazine in the section we call advances,

dispatches from the frontiers of science, technology, and medicine.

Nature and Nurture by Jason G. Goldman.

How do young children understand the natural world? Most research into this

question has focused on urban, white, middle-class American children living near large universities.

Even when psychologists include kids from other communities, too often they use experimental

procedures originally developed for urban children. Now researchers have developed a methodology for studying rural Native American kids' perspectives

on nature and have compared their responses with those of their city-dwelling peers.

The findings offer some rare cross-cultural insight into early childhood environmental education.

Northwestern University developmental psychologist Sandra Waxman and her colleagues

have long collaborated with the Menominee, a Native American nation in Wisconsin.

When the researchers presented plans for their study to tribe members who were trained

research assistants, the assistants protested that the experiment,

which involved watching children play with toy animals, was not culturally appropriate.

Waxman said that it did not make sense to the monominy to think of animals as divorced from their

ecological contexts. Instead, one of the Menominee researchers constructed a diorama that included realistic

trees, grass, and rocks, as well as the original toy animals. The researchers watched as

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