What can we learn from children's peer relationships? | Robin Banerjee | TEDxSussexUniversity

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Children’s peer relations are the subject of Prof. Robin Banerjee’s talk; from the thoughts, feelings and behaviour involved in such early interactions to the fascinating impacts they can have on a child’s development across various domains.
Prof. Banerjee is the editor of 'Infant and Child Development' and the director of teaching and learning at the School of Psychology at Sussex University.
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[@candidlypoppy2121]

Sounds like the philosophy they have at my daughters school. All the grades interact with each other during classes and there is a good sense of community. I feel lucky to have my child in a positive environment like this.

[@KD-sz5bx]

The theory of mind explains so much.

[@OSUex]

I came here to hear Robin Banerjee play Amy Winehouse hits. What a surprise.

[@Funandconsciousness]

I just find it a bit sad that it takes someone to do & publish a study on this, when I & my peers growing up really did understand this, yet so many adults seemed to understand and work well with those of us who didn't get socially invited very much.

[@MrStavyros]

Sorry, I'm not sure I entirely get your point. Care to expand?

[@Funandconsciousness]

***** In other words, what Prof. Banerjee is saying is that we can learn valuable lessons from observing children's peer-to-peer relationships, and my first point would be that we adults - having all lived through that experience - seem to have kinda forgotten what we each learned ... To me, it would be "common sense", and yet it apparently takes a "psychological study" and an "expert" to point these things out to society as a whole. That's what I find a bit sad. My peers and I certainly did understand, and I know I have continued to understand as I have grown into my senior years. Now when Dr. Banerjee put up his diagram of who invited who, and who didn't get invited, I identified with those who didn't get invited ... and didn't get any real help with that. Meaning, adults then had opportunities to observe this phenomenon, and yet people like me "fell through the cracks" and didn't get help even from adults who had some understanding and wanted to help but weren't somehow in a position to provide help. And again, that's sad. And it's obviously happening still. If Dr. Banerjee had somehow concluded that we adults could do things like be truly interested, and take the time with such children, to work out some simple solutions, that would have made a lovely talk. And indeed I recently watched a TEDx video on KZbin wherein a teacher was describing how she had been using such a diagram to actually help her "less social" students become more socially able. That was a delight! In my opinion, that teacher was demonstrating what a responsible human does, far better than presenting a study that merely concludes that we should do so! Any clearer? I can see now how my sentence was somewhat confusing, and I'm glad you cared enough to ask me to clarify. Hope I did!

[@bagelsandcoffee727]

@@Funandconsciousness could you tell me the title of the other video? thanks :)

[@Funandconsciousness]

Sorry, no. That happened 9 years ago, and I doubt I could find notes from back then, even if I made notes.@@bagelsandcoffee727