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Date(s) - 01/30/2016
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Education Evolved: The Educative Instincts and the Conditions that Optimize Their Effectiveness.
Evolutionary Psychologist, Peter Gray will speak about how children’s natural curiosity, playfulness, sociability, and willfulness have all been shaped by natural selection to serve the function of education. Drawing from his research of hunter-gatherer societies, he will present evidence that these instincts still work beautifully in our culture today, if we provide the right conditions.
Peter Gray on Self-Directed Learning
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More about Peter Gray:
Peter Gray, Ph.D., research professor at Boston College, is author of Free to Learn (Basic Books, 2013) and Psychology (Worth Publishers, a college textbook now in its 7th edition). He has conducted and published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology. He did his undergraduate study at Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biological sciences at Rockefeller University. His current research and writing focus primarily on children’s natural ways of learning and the life-long value of play. His own play includes not only his research and writing, but also long distance bicycling, kayaking, back-woods skiing, and vegetable gardening.
