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Communication between children and their parents begins in asymmetric relationships, in which the parents’ contribution is much larger than the children’s one. Okamoto (2014) and Okamoto, et al. (2014; 2019) showed that Parental Proxy Talk for their infants plays an important role in supporting for their asymmetry in the pre-verbal period, e.g., from zero month to fifteen months old. Parental Proxy Talk is adults’ utterances as if the talk happened in infants’ voices, such as a mother’s “yummy” for an eating infant.
Her research explores how the asymmetry of parent-child communication changes during the transition to her verbal period in a case study of one Japanese female young child and her mother. Professor Okamoto-Omi will show the process of co-construction of cultural meanings through parent’s and child’s voices and exchanges.
The lecture will inaugurate the new course R-SNE4100-Cultural-historical and decolonial approaches to learning, development, and inclusion as part of the new Master in Research in Special Needs Education.
Guest lecturer:
- Yoriko Okamoto-Omi, ph.D (Psychology):
- Professor in the Department Human Welfare and Child Education, Rissho University, Japan.
- Her research interest is making-meaning processes as longitudinal parenthood transition and cultural development of children; e.g., (1) Development of child - parent communication, and (2) Everyday risks on Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC).
- She likes taking pictures, walking, playing tennis and visiting children's places like kindergartens.
Host:
- Luca Tateo, Professor, ISP.
Seats are limited, so please register: