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SUMMARY:Play\, self-regulation & early childhood education: what does rese
 arch say? - Professor Clancy Blair (NYU) & Professor Kathy Sylva (Universi
 ty of Oxford)
DTSTART:20170127T170000Z
DTEND:20170127T183000Z
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CONTACT:Anna Vidos
DESCRIPTION:A rare opportunity to hear from two of the world's foremost de
 velopmental psychologists about how their research has been applied to edu
 cation and social policy.\n\nOf particular interest to academics\, teacher
 s\, early years practitioners\, and third/public sector professionals\, Pr
 ofessor Blair and Professor Sylva will highlight the effects of early educ
 ation on development\, attainment and fulfilling individual potential.\n\n
 Prof Sylva's talk is entitled 'Nurturing 21st century skills in early chil
 dhood: evidence from the English EPPSE study and the EU CARE project'\n\nP
 rof Blair's talk is entitled 'The Science of Self-Regulation: Supporting E
 xecutive Function Development in Early Childhood Through Play'\n\nThere wi
 ll be time for a chaired Q&A session at the end of the talks and refreshme
 nts will be provided.\n\nThis event is supported by an ESRC Future Researc
 h Leaders grant awarded to Dr Marisol Basilio.\n\nProfessor Clancy Blair i
 s a developmental psychologist who studies self-regulation in young childr
 en. His primary interest concerns the development of cognitive abilities r
 eferred to as executive functions and the ways in which these aspects of c
 ognition are important for school readiness and early school achievement. 
 He is also interested in the development and evaluation of pre-school and 
 elementary school curricula designed to promote executive functions as a m
 eans of preventing school failure. In 2002\, Blair and his colleagues at P
 enn State University and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil
 l received funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human D
 evelopment for a longitudinal\, population-based study of family ecology a
 nd child development beginning at birth. In his part of the project\, Blai
 r is examining interaction between early experiential and biological influ
 ences on the development of executive functions and related aspects of sel
 f-regulation. Ultimately\, Blair and his colleagues plan to follow this sa
 mple through the school years and into young adulthood. Prior to coming to
  NYU\, Blair spent ten years as an assistant and then associate professor 
 in the department of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State. H
 e received his doctorate in developmental psychology and a master's degree
  in public health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1996.\n\
 n\nAfter completing a doctorate in Developmental Psychology at Harvard\, P
 rofessor Kathy Sylva moved to England for post-doctoral research with Jero
 me Bruner at the University of Oxford Department of Experimental Psycholog
 y. Her research interests fall into two themes. She has conducted several 
 large-scale studies on the effects of early education and care on children
 's development\, acting as a lead researcher on the Effective Pre-school a
 nd Primary Education study (EPPE/EPPSE) which followed 3\,000 children fro
 m pre-school entry to the end of compulsory schooling. She co-led the nati
 onal Evaluation of Childrens Centres in England\, another large scale stud
 y on the effects of early childhood services on development. Her second in
 terest is in parenting programmes aimed at enhancing parents capacity to s
 upport their childs learning and behaviour. She has led three randomised c
 ontrolled trials to evaluate parenting interventions\, the most recent on 
 a parent programme aimed at supporting early reading near the start of pri
 mary school. Currently Kathy is researching the early childhood curriculum
  across Europe\, funded by the EU. Kathy has published seven books and 200
  papers/chapters/reports on early education/care\, early literacy and ways
  to support families. She was Specialist Adviser to the UK Parliamentary S
 elect Committee on Education 2000-2009\, the Tickell Review of the early c
 hildhood curriculum in 2011\, and the National College Expert Panel on Sta
 ndards for Early Years Teachers in 2012. In 2014-15 she was specialist adv
 isor to the House of Lords Enquiry into Affordable Childcare. She was awar
 ded an OBE in 2008 for services to children and families and in 2014 was a
 warded the British Education Associations Nisbett Award for outstanding co
 ntribution to educational research. She was elected Fellow of the British 
 Psychological Society and also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
 \n\nRegister for a free ticket here: https://goo.gl/iZbSQY
LOCATION:Auditorium in Mary Allan Building\, Homerton College\, Cambridge
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