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After two years, she transitioned to a postdoctoral position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Elizabeth Spelke and was awarded the McDonnell-Pew Junior Scientist Award. [8] From 2001 to 2005, she joined Vanderbilt University as an assistant professor. [ 9 ]
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.
Elizabeth Spelke has developed a theory of core knowledge that infants possess innate cognitive systems or "core knowledge systems" to form new cognitive abilities. [56] [57] [58] Susan Carey has introduced concepts such as fast mapping, extended mapping, Quinan bootstrapping, and folk theorization to explain learning processes in children.
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."
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]
Renée Baillargeon (French: [ʁəne bajaʁʒɔ̃]; born 1954) [1] is a Canadian American research psychologist.A distinguished professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Baillargeon specializes in the development of cognition in infancy.
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 was formed in 1986. The American Core Knowledge curriculum [1] was piloted in Three Oaks Elementary School in Florida in 1990. Today it is used in hundreds of schools across America [2] and Civitas has adapted the American Core Knowledge Sequence to use in British schools.