Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff holds the Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Chair in the School of Education at the University of Delaware and is also a member of the Departments of Psychology and Linguistics and Cognitive Science.[1][2][3] An award-winning author of 12 books and over 150 professional articles on early childhood and infant development, she founded and directs the Infant Language Project, which investigates the acquisition of native languages in infants and toddlers.[4] Among her current projects is the creation of a computerized language assessment for preschoolers that is dialect and culture free, a project to teach vocabulary to disadvantaged preschoolers, and research on the conceptual underpinnings of language. In addition to her research on language acquisition, Dr. Golinkoff is also an expert on the importance of play and playful learning for children's learning and education. She is also studying how preschoolers learn about space and geometric forms with an eye to contributing to the improvement of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) teaching in the United States. Her research has been supported by funding from national agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Institute of Education Sciences.[5] Dr. Golinkoff served as an Associate Editor of Child Development, one of the premier research journals in her field, and serves on many advisory boards for organizations devoted to children's well being and education.[6] Dr. Golinkoff is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.[7]

Dr. Golinkoff is determined to disseminate the findings of her field and speaks all over the world to both lay and professional audiences. She also consults with toy companies, governmental bodies, children's museums and libraries, translating developmental science for use in the world. In addition, she is one of the founders of the Ultimate Block Party movement, an event that took place in Central Park to celebrate playful learning.[8] It attracted over 50,000 people.[9] Other Ultimate Block Parties were held in Toronto, Canada, and Baltimore, Maryland.[10] She is also a founder of LearnNow.org, a website devoted to sharing developmental science with parents and practitioners.[11]

Education

Dr. Golinkoff received her bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College and her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Cornell University. Her postdoctoral fellowship was completed at the University of Pittsburgh's Learning Research and Development Center.[12]

Awards

In 2011, Dr. Golinkoff was named a Francis Alison Professor at the University of Delaware. The University's highest competitive award for faculty, it is awarded to a faculty member who has made notable contributions to his or her field of study. It encompasses research, teaching, mentoring, and service.[13] Dr. Golinkoff and her colleague Kathy Hirsh-Pasek of Temple University were joint recipients of the 2009 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Service to Psychological Science and the 2011 Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from the American Psychological Association.[14][15] Dr. Golinkoff was also awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and a James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award, both in 1988.[16][17] Her book Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less was awarded the Multiple Sclerosis Society's Books for a Better Life Prize in its Psychology division in 2003[18]

Books

References

  1. ↑ http://www.education.udel.edu/robertagolinkoff/faculty-bio/roberta-michnick-golinkoff-biography/
  2. ↑ http://www.psych.udel.edu/people/list/category/affiliated-faculty/
  3. ↑ http://www.ling.udel.edu/people/faculty
  4. ↑ http://www.udel.edu/ILP
  5. ↑ http://udel.edu/~roberta/index.html
  6. ↑ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8624/homepage/EditorialBoard.html
  7. ↑ http://www.psychologicalscience.org/fellows/fellows.cfm/
  8. ↑ http://dowser.org/roberta-golinkoff-on-play-and-learning-at-the-ultimate-block-party/
  9. ↑ http://www.udel.edu/ocm/development/kathyw/v1no3/news_block_party.html
  10. ↑ http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-10-02/news/bs-md-art-of-play-20111002_1_anana-kambon-rash-field-ultimate-block-party
  11. ↑ http://www.learnnow.org/founding-members/university-of-delaware
  12. ↑ http://udel.edu/~roberta/index.html
  13. ↑ http://www.udel.edu/udmessenger/vol19no2/stories/otg-golinkoff.html
  14. ↑ http://www.apa.org/about/awards/bsa-distserv.aspx
  15. ↑ http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/10/honors.aspx
  16. ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/5546-roberta-m-golinkoff
  17. ↑ http://www.cattell.duke.edu/cattrecip.html
  18. ↑ http://www.udel.edu/ILP/einstein/reviews.html

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