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Scaffolding Up Social Interactions

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Scaffolding up from Social Interactions: A proposal of how social interactions might shape learning across development

Sarah Gerson

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Cardiff University

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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

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Social learning and analogical reasoning both provide exponential opportunities for learning. These skills have largely been studied independently, but my future research asks how combining skills across previously independent domains could add up to more than the sum of their parts. Analogical reasoning allows individuals to transfer learning between contexts and opens up infinite opportunities for innovation and knowledge creation. Its origins and development, so far, have largely been studied in purely cognitive domains. Constraining analogical development to non-social domains may mistakenly lead researchers to overlook its early roots and limit ideas about its potential scope. Building a bridge between social learning and analogy could facilitate identification of the origins of analogical reasoning and broaden its far-reaching potential. In this talk, I propose that the early emergence of social learning, its saliency, and its meaningful context for young children provides a springboard for learning. In addition to providing a strong foundation for early analogical reasoning, the social domain provides an avenue for scaling up analogies in order to learn to learn from others via increasingly complex and broad routes.

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analogical reasoningcognitioncontextdevelopmental psychologyearly emergenceknowledge creationlearning opportunitiessocial interactionssocial learning

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Sarah Gerson

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Cardiff University

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