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Carroll, Tricia and Josephidou, Joanne
(2022).
URL: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/pro0fessional-stu...
Abstract
This chapter aims to dispel some of the myths about what young children are capable of. We hope you will develop an understanding of how much children have learnt before they even arrive in your class and therefore how your teaching needs to sensitively build on this. Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, continues to challenge our perspectives of children through her numerous publications; one such description we continually return to is that of a very young child as ‘the most powerful learning machine in the universe’ (Gopnik et al. 1999 p. 1).