The conviviality of learning from children - Prof. Trevarthen
The humanness of conviviality in learning from children
Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, Edinburgh
Abstract reasoning about the brain as an organ for 'cognition', just recording information, creates barriers to understanding of the playful and affectionate motives for learning in early childhood.
As teachers and parents we need to appreciate how, in every human community, impulses for play inspire rituals of artful creativity and their celebration, and to consider how the source of this imaginative vitality born in our children may be best supported. ... Does the ambitious world of adults searching for profits in knowledge and skills become toxic for the spirit of many children?
| Duration: | 1 year |
| Price: | £40 |