32.1259, Summer Schools: Baby and Child Research Center: Development from Pregnancy to Preschool / Online

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Subject: 32.1259, Summer Schools:  Baby and Child Research Center: Development from Pregnancy to Preschool / Online

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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 18:43:25
From: Lena Ackermann [lena.ackermann at psych.ru.nl]
Subject: Baby and Child Research Center: Development from Pregnancy to Preschool / Online

 

Baby and Child Research Center: Development from Pregnancy to Preschool

Host Institution: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Website: https://www.ru.nl/radboudsummerschool/courses/2021/baby-child-research-center-development-from/

Dates: 05-Jul-2021 - 09-Jul-2021
Location: Online, Online, Netherlands

Focus: This course focuses on early development from different perspectives, including early language acquisition.
Minimum Education Level: BA


Special Qualifications:
The course is open to students at the master and PhD levels


Description:
***This course will be held fully online***

Babies and young children are amazing: Born seemingly helpless, they reach
important cognitive and linguistic milestones within the first years of life
and transform into totally different creatures. How can this be? In recent
decades, the field of infant studies has made great progress when it comes to
understanding these impressive developmental changes. At the same time, it is
becoming increasingly clear that the first years of life have a long-lasting
impact on cognitive and psychosocial outcomes: Our experiences in early
childhood shape our subsequent health and brain development. 
This course will bring together basic developmental research and its practical
applications.

In the first part of the course, experienced instructors with a background in
early childhood research and its theoretical and methodological intricacies
will equip participants with state-of-the-art knowledge in developmental
psychobiology, social-cognitive development and language development. This
more theoretical part of the course will be complemented by digital lab tours
of the different labs of the Baby & Child Research Center (BRC) and demos of
various research tools (such as eye-tracking, EEG, motion tracking and fNIRS).

In the second part, participants will use their knowledge to tackle questions
at the intersection of theory and practice. Novel insights from basic research
into the early years can help practitioners and policymakers make decisions
that help children grow up to be happy and healthy. However, the translation
from research to practice is not always easy. Basic research often focuses on
specific, narrow questions, while practitioners tend to look at the bigger
picture. This part of the course is highly interactive and hands-on: Under the
guidance of our instructors, small groups (“think tanks”) of participants will
develop their own applied research project. Each think tank choses a topic of
interest, reviews relevant literature, and develops advice for practitioners
based on research findings. The week-long course will culminate in a
mini-symposium where each think tank presents their work to the group.

This course is for you if you have a background in psychology, cognitive
science, linguistics, educational science or an adjacent field and an interest
in developmental research beyond the ivory tower. You will gain a deeper
understanding of current topics in developmental science and their relation to
the challenges practitioners and policymakers face.


Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                      Language Acquisition
                      Psycholinguistics

Tuition: 295 EURO

Registration: 08-Apr-2021 to 30-Apr-2021

Contact Person: Lena Ackermann
                Email: lena.ackermann at psych.ru.nl


Registration Instructions:
Application deadline: April 30, 2021




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