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SUMMARY:Alison Gopnik: The Gardener and the Carpenter: What developmental science tells us about relations between parents and children.
DESCRIPTION:In this Rotman Lecture\, co-sponsored with Western Alumni and the London Public Library\, renowned author Alison Gopnik asks us to think about parenting as a relationship. \nABSTRACT\n\nCaring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call “parenting” is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years\, the concept of parenting and the multibillion dollar industry surrounding it have transformed child care into obsessive\, controlling\, and goal-oriented labor intended to create a particular kind of child and therefore a particular kind of adult. I’ll argue that the familiar twenty-first-century picture of parents and children is profoundly wrong–it’s not just based on bad science\, it’s bad for kids and parents\, too. Drawing on the study of human evolution and my own scientific research into how children learn\, I’ll show that although caring for children is profoundly important\, it is not a matter of shaping them to turn out a particular way. Children are designed to be messy and unpredictable\, playful and imaginative\, and to be very different both from their parents and from each other. The variability and flexibility of childhood lets them innovate\, create\, and survive in an unpredictable world. “Parenting” won’t make children learn—but caring parents let children learn by creating a secure\, loving environment. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\nAlison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her research explores how young children come to know about the world around them. Professor Gopnik’s current research focuses on how children learn about the causal structure of the world—how some things make other things happen. She is the author of several books\, including the New York Times bestseller\, “The Philosophical Baby\,” and\, most recently\, “The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children.” \nRead more about Alison Gopnik. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEVENT POSTER\n\nView a copy of the event poster. \nEVENT VIDEO\n\n \n 
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/alison-gopnik-gardener-carpenterwhat-developmental-science-tells-us-relations-parents-children/
LOCATION:Wolf Performance Hall – Central Library\, 251 Dundas St\, London\, Ontario\, N6A 6H9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Mind & Neuroscience,Public Events,Public Lectures,Rotman Lectures,Science and Values
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SUMMARY:Alison Gopnik: When children are better learners than adults are: Theory formation\, causal models\, and the evolution of learning.
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nIn the past 15 years\, we have discovered that even young children are adept at inferring causal relationship. But are there differences in the ways that younger children\, older children and adults learn? And do socioeconomic status and culture make a difference? I will present several studies showing a surprising pattern. Not only can preschoolers learn abstract higher-order principles from data\, but younger learners are actually better at inferring unusual or unlikely principles than older learners and adults. This pattern also holds for children in Peru and in Headstart programs in Oakland\, California. I relate this pattern to computational ideas about search and sampling\, to evolutionary ideas about human life history\, and to neuroscience findings about the negative effects of frontal control on wide exploration. My hypothesis is that our distinctively long\, protected human childhood allows an early period of broad hypothesis search\, exploration and creativity\, before the demands of goal-directed action set in. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\nAlison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her research explores how young children come to know about the world around them. Professor Gopnik’s current research focuses on how children learn about the causal structure of the world—how some things make other things happen. She is the author of several books\, including the New York Times bestseller\, “The Philosophical Baby\,” and\, most recently\, “The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children.” \nRead more about Alison Gopnik. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEVENT POSTER\n\nDownload a copy of the event poster. \nEVENT VIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/alison-gopnik-children-better-learners-adults-theory-formation-causal-models-evolution-learning/
LOCATION:University Community Centre\, Room 56\, 1151 Richmond Street\, London\, Ontario\, N6A 2K5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Mind & Neuroscience,Science and Values
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