Children as explorers
- Lectures and events
- Publication Date
- 02/03/2022
- Featuring
- Professor Alison Gopnik
- Bruce Adamson
Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology, at the University of California at Berkeley, and author of over 120 journal articles and several books including the bestselling and critically acclaimed “The Scientist in the Crib”, “The Philosophical Baby” and “The Gardener and the Carpenter”. She is a Guggenheim fellow, fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and President-Elect of the Association for Psychological Science. She writes the Mind and Matter science column for the Wall Street Journal, and frequently appears on TV and radio including “The Charlie Rose Show”, “The Colbert Report” and “The Ezra Klein Show”.
This video was part of the RSE’s early years conference, which focused on placing the needs of children, their being and belonging, at the heart of early learning.
The conference took a comprehensive look at placing the needs of children at the heart of their learning, rather than focusing on early learning and childcare as a means to an economic or practical end.
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