‘Ostensive communication, social learning, and cultural transmission in small-scale and large-scale societies’

Date: 
Thursday, October 15, 2015 - 9:00am to 6:00pm

SOMICS Workshop on

‘Ostensive communication, social learning, and cultural transmission

in small-scale and large-scale societies’

Program

9.00                Tanya Broesch – Social learning in small-scale societies

                        Michelle Kline – How to learn about teaching

10.30              coffee break

11.00              Mikołaj Hernik - ‘Infant-directed speech helps disambiguating            the content of ostensive referential communication for human infants

                      Kata Oláh, Ildikó KirályNatural Pedagogy and the core processes of learning and acting in social groups 

12.30              lunch with Poster Session in room 102

14.00              Tara Callaghan – Children acquiring the ways of their groups:cultural developmental studies of imitation, pictorial symbols, pretense, and fairness

                       Philippe Rochat – Possession psychology factoring culture and       development

15.30              coffee break

16.00              Vlad Naumescu – Pedagogies of prayer: Teaching orthodoxy in            South India

                       Dan Sperber – Closing remarks