The Tufts Education Department and the Center for Engineering
Educational Outreach cordially invite you to attend a lecture entitled:
Closer and beyond 1, 2, 3... Children's developing number knowledge
Offered by Nora Scheuer, Researcher at the National Council of
Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina (CONICET), at
Universidad Nacional del Comahue in Bariloche, Patagonia, on Friday
November 21 at 10 am in the Terrace Room, Paige Hall, Tufts University.
Dr. Scheuer?s main areas of interest are children's cognitive
development in the fields of number, drawing and writing, as well as
in the field of theory of mind; specifically, the development of their
implicit learning theories. Nora Scheuer first studied Educational
Psychology at CAECE, Buenos Aires. Her research apprenticeship began
in Italy, where she collaborated in studies about very young
children's emerging explaining competence (Trieste University) and
kindergartners' early text composition strategies (La Sapienza di Roma
University). She embarked on studying how preschool and early
elementary school children appropriate the base 10 written number
system with the supervision of Anne Sinclair, at Geneva University.
On the basis of the studies she carried out in Argentina in the next
years, she earned her Doctor of Psychology degree from Geneva
University in 1996. After collaborating in research on implicit
learning theories at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with the group
coordinated by JI Pozo and MdP Pérez Echeverría, Nora Scheuer entered
CONICET in Argentina, where she has been a researcher since 1998. Her
work deals with the ways children learn in the fields of number,
drawing, and writing.
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Bárbara M. Brizuela
Associate Professor
Mathematics, Science, Technology, and Engineering Education Program
Department of Education
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155