Developmental psychologist Kathleen McCartney of Harvard University will speak about early childhood development and poverty on Feb. 19 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Developmental psychologist Kathleen McCartney of Harvard University will speak about early childhood development and poverty on Feb. 19 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The free public talk will be from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the state dining room of the Morehead Building off East Franklin Street, which also houses the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center. Enter the building on the west side at the visitors center.
McCartney, dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and the Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development there, will title her talk “The Effects of Environment on Children from Low-Income Families.”
She will discuss whether there is a given level of experience for normal development to take place, presenting evidence from behavior genetics, income-change studies and early childhood interventions. McCartney also will explore implications of these issues for educators and policy makers.
The talk will be this year’s William C. Friday Distinguished Lecture sponsored by the UNC School of Education. A reception will follow the talk.
Limited parking is available at the Morehead Building; paid parking is available in downtown parking lots on Rosemary Street. For more information, contact Karen Hutchinson at (919) 843-2445 or hutchins@email.unc.edu.
For directions to the Morehead Building, visit http://www.moreheadplanetarium.org/ and click “Plan Your Visit.”
Dean McCartney’s Web site: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/
faculty_research/profiles/profile.shtml?vperson_id=257
School of Education contact: Linda Baucom, (919)962-8687, lbaucom@unc.edu
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