{"id":1199,"date":"2017-08-03T09:32:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T08:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2017-08-03T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T09:06:07","slug":"nuffield-foundation-project-public-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2017\/08\/03\/nuffield-foundation-project-public-report\/","title":{"rendered":"How do children learn abstract concepts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since her previous role as a postdoctoral researcher at UCL, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/ponarim\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Marta Ponari<\/a>\u00a0has contributed to a project that was funded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuffieldfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nuffield Foundation<\/a>. The project, titled &#8216;How do children learn abstract concepts?&#8217;, is now complete (1 October 2012 \u2013 31 July 2017)\u00a0and the team have published a final public report and a briefing sheet which are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuffieldfoundation.org\/how-do-young-children-learn-abstract-concepts\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The research sheds light on how children learn abstract concepts like &#8216;idea&#8217; or &#8216;freedom&#8217;. This research has implications for teaching in primary school. It also has a significant impact on how children with atypical language skills are supported to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since her previous role as a postdoctoral researcher at UCL, Dr Marta Ponari\u00a0has contributed to a project that was funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2017\/08\/03\/nuffield-foundation-project-public-report\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3684],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}