Twenty-fifth International Conference on Learning

Abstract

The paper presents current research and important challenges for professionals in early childhood learning and the impact of global migration of displaced families. During early childhood, learning and knowledge are gained by dynamic cognitive processes of experiencing, conceptualizing, analyzing and doing. Multi-sociocultural factors significantly influence what a child learns and thinks. The challenge of knowing what works for one child’s learning, but might not work for another child, will be discussed. How the child satisfies a learning task’s demand will be discussed from a pedagogical science perspective and practice of a dynamic process of learning versus assessment i.e. a measure of the extent of a child’s learning transformation over time. A review of key research findings in the following areas will be presented: neurocognitive development and maturation; development of memory in early childhood; language/literacies and reading progress; working memory and executive functioning impact on learning and academic performance; sociocultural interactive processes; Vygotsky’s and Luria’s influences on dynamic processing v. performance in children’s learning; maternal/familial influences on a child’s learning and literacy; impact of global immigration on war-displaced children; and health conditions and poverty effects.