Tag: Paul Harris

  • Campus & Community

    American Academy elects new members

    The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 197 new members, including 10 from Harvard.

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  • Science & Tech

    Monsters, tooth fairies and germs!

    Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Paul Harris argues that children as young as preschool age can discern whether or not they’re hearing the truth, even in a domain for which they have no previous knowledge, by accurately judging the reliability of the person who’s telling them. “Particularly among 4-year-olds, but also among 3-year-olds, they’re…

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  • Health

    Imagination important for children’s cognitive development

    Paul Harris, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, says there are two very different ways to define imagination. “You can either see it as disappearing or waning during childhood, or you can see it the way I do, as persisting throughout life,” Harris says. The message in his book, “The Work of the…

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