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Study Project: What is Waza Thinking? Evolving a new book format to foster infant cognitive development (Part III)

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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Simone Pika

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Early cognitive and communicative experiences of young children differ dramatically in relation to their socioeconomic background. For example, an average child on welfare has half as much experience per hour (616 words/hour) as an average working-class child (1,251 words/hour) and less than one-third that of an average child living in a professional family (2,153 words/hour) (Hart & Risley 2003). These differences in early language experience result in a “vocabulary gap” of around 30 million words between children from the wealthiest and poorest families as well as differences in tackling the cognitive challenges of their daily environment.
Reading picture- and storybooks is a great way to promote children’s early language and cognitive skills. Parent-preschooler reading is related to language growth, emergent literacy, and reading achievement (Bus, IJzendoorn, & Pellegrini 1995). However, more recent studies found that how one reads a book to children can influence their learning achievements (Brownell et al. 2013; Read 2014).
The study group ‘what is Waza thinking part II’ will act by further developing a new book format to provide parents with fun tools to motivate and enhance the cognitive development of their children.
The second part of the project is divided into two working packages and three creative phases and will be finalized by a report:
W1: Familiarization of results and outcomes of project phase 1.
W2: Distribution of project roles
C2: Implementation of writing and drawing process
C4: Design of new tools using newest technologies
C5: Planning and implementation of a presentation of the new book idea to selected publishers.

Mandatory skills: Passion for story writing or drawing, or experience with drawing programs, or programming skills.

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Ort: nicht angegeben
Zeiten: Di. 12:00 - 14:00 (wöchentlich)
Erster Termin: Dienstag, 14.04.2020 12:00 - 14:00
Veranstaltungsart: Studienprojekt (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)
Sprache: 2
ECTS-Punkte: 12