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Elizabeth Shilin Spelke FBA (born May 28, 1949) is an American cognitive psychologist at the Department of Psychology of Harvard University and director of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies. Starting in the 1980s, she carried out experiments on infants and young children to test their cognitive faculties.
Susan E. Carey (born 1942 [1]) is an American psychologist who is a professor of psychology at Harvard University.She studies language acquisition, children's development of concepts, conceptual changes over time, and the importance of executive functions. [2]
Egypt by E. A. Wallis Budge (110); Electricity by Gisbert Kapp (53); Elizabethan Literature by J. M. Robertson (89); England under the Tudors and Stuarts, 1485-1688 by Keith Feiling (120)
The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge was a series of popular non-fiction books from the first half of the twentieth century that ran to over 200 volumes. The authors were eminent scholars in their fields and included Isaiah Berlin , Harold J. Laski , Hilaire Belloc , Bertrand Russell and John Masefield .
CORE (Connecting Repositories) is a service provided by the Knowledge Media Institute [Wikidata] based at The Open University, United Kingdom.The goal of the project is to aggregate all open access content distributed across different systems, such as repositories and open access journals, enrich this content using text mining and data mining, and provide free access to it through a set of ...
In 2011 a British version of The Core Knowledge Sequence was published online. [HirschPublications 13] The books began to be adapted for the UK, beginning with What Your Year 1 Child Needs to Know. [20] By 2015, there were about 1,260 schools in the US (across 46 states and District of Columbia) using all or part of the Core Knowledge Sequence.
The Core Knowledge Foundation is an independent, non-profit educational foundation founded in 1986 by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. [1] [2] The school curriculum created by the Foundation focuses on teaching students a foundation of knowledge at a young age; the desired outcome is that students will be better equipped for "effective participation and mutual understanding in the wider society."
A distinguished professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Baillargeon specializes in the development of cognition in infancy. Educated at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania, Baillargeon is the recipient of the American Psychological Association's Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist Award.