Abstract
How is young children’s intellectual culture of perceiving nature different from adults’? What types of linguistic and gender characteristics appear in that phenomenon? What should be considered in pedagogical practice for young children given this understanding? Based on field‐based vignettes collected from multiple sites and situations that are natural to young children’s living and learning environment, the exploratory paper presents two major social cultural characteristics: (1) there is a pattern of linguistic discourse that presents a mismatch between young children’s and adults’ perceptions of the natural environment; and (2) a stereotypical gender‐doing seems to be prevalent in the process of young children’s knowledge construction about their natural environment.