Dear All,

We would like to invite you to the next ELTE Cognitive Seminar:

Sunae Kim: Children's learning and teaching as social and cultural selection

Humans engage in various forms of social interactions and are selective of their own social partners.  In this talk, I will first present data addressing how young children select social partners in their learning and teaching particularly asking what factors guide and modulate children’s selection of their learning partners. Then, turning to metacognitive aspects of learning and teaching, I will present data showing that young children’s sensitivity to their own knowledge states is better elicited in a social interaction (e.g., informing others) than is traditionally argued. Together, I argue  children’s notion of learning partners is both facilitated and constrained by social interactions.