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Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Professor at the University of Delaware and University of Stavanger

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff is the Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Education (and the Departments of Psychological and Brain Science and Linguistics and Cognitive Science) at the University of Delaware and a professor at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has won numerous awards for her work on early language development, the impact of media on children, spatial development, playful learning, and the dissemination of developmental science. Her latest book, Making Schools Work, received glowing reviews. Elected to the National Academy of Education, she travels widely speaking all over the world to share educational and developmental science.

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Child's Play, Learning and Development Lab, University of Delaware

Contributions by Roberta

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff / 11 June 2024

Opinion Development Play Learning environments

A family play joyfully with a skipping rope.

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Natalia Kucirkova / 21 March 2024

Article Society Development Technology and society Mental health

A young boy and his mother read a digital book together.

Associate Professor of Economics and Education at Teacher’s College, Columbia University

Alex Eble

Postdoctoral researcher, University of Sydney

Fotini Vasilopoulos

Science journalist, filmmaker and editor, BBC

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