Dr. Karen Adolph\, New York University
Learning to Move and Moving to Learn
Infants learn to mov
e in the context of continual development. Moreover\, developmental changes
in motor skills generate new opportunities for learning. A fruitful way to
study these processes is to consider learning as embodied in the reality o
f infants’ growing and changing bodies\, embedded in the practical exigenci
es of an ever-expanding physical environment\, and enculturated by social i
nteractions and culturally determined childrearing practices. In adopting t
his perspective\, surprising findings have emerged that provide new insight
s into the relations between perception and action\, and between learning a
nd development.
Dr . Karen Adolph's research focuses on behavioral flexibility--how people learn to adapt to changes in their bodies and skills and to variations in the environment.
Michael Chandler is Professor Emerit us\, working at UBC’s Department of Psychology. Dr. Chandler received his Bachelor of Arts in 1960 from Grinnell College\, Iowa and his Ph.D. in 1966 from the University of California\, Berkeley where he worked with Drs. Sheldon Korchin and Theodore Sarbin. He then went on to c omplete two postdoctoral fellowships\; one at the Menninger Foundation in K ansas and the other at the Institut des Sciences de L'Education\, Universit e de Geneve\, in Switzerland with Dr. Jean Piaget. Dr. Chand ler is a world-renowned scholar whose accolades and contributions to the field are too numerous to mention in full. He is often recognized for revolutionizing the way scholars conceptualize and study the development of social cognition or ‘theory of mind’ as well as his pioneering research on identity development. His ongoing program of research features an explorat ion of the role culture plays in constructing the course of identity develo pment\, shaping young people's emerging sense of ownership of their persona l and cultural past\, and their commitment to their own and their community 's future well being. These efforts\, along with more than 150 published bo oks\, articles and book chapters\, have earned Dr. Chandler< /span> the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Senior Research Prize\, led to his being awarded the Killam Teaching Prize\, and resulted in his twice being n amed a Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Distinguished Scholar in R esidence. His research and scholarly efforts have also resulted in his bein g appointed as Canada's only Distinguished Investigator of both the Canadia n Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR). Dr. Chandler ’s research with children at risk began more than 35 years ago with an article (co-authored with A. Sameroff) that was selected by the Society for Research in Child Development for inclusion in a book entitled Twenty S tudies That Revolutionized Child Psychology. Professor Chan dler's program of research dealing with identity development and sui cide in Aboriginal youth was singled out for publication as a book and as a n invited Monograph of the Society for Research in Child Development (recen tly translated into French)\, and is the only program of Canadian research featured in WHO’s recently released report on the social determinants of he alth.
Annually the Department of Psychology hosts a Colloquia Series throughout the academic year.
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