Seminar · Cognition
Scaffolding up from Social Interactions: A proposal of how social interactions might shape learning across development
Sarah Gerson · Cardiff University
Thu, Dec 9, 2021 · 16:00 UTC
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 mistaken