04/12/2025
Via Bing Nursery School, Stanford University
Presented by Jelena Obradović, Ph.D., Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
Abstract: In this talk, Professor Obradović shares how contextual experiences in early childhood influence children’s development of executive functions and related self-regulation skills and why these foundational learning skills are important for children’s school readiness and success. Dr. Obradović is a professor at Stanford University in the Developmental and Psychological Sciences program at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She completed a Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, and postdoctoral training in psychophysiology at the University of British Columbia. She is the recipient of a Jacobs Foundation Advanced Research Fellowship, a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award, and Early Career Research Contribution Award from the Society for Research in Child Development. Professor Obradović’s research examines how the interplay of children’s physiological stress arousal, self-regulatory skills, and quality of caregiving environments contributes to their health, learning, and well-being over time. She also studies how caregivers’ executive functions and emotion regulation skills contribute to teaching and parenting practices that promote or undermine child development. Her current work involves the development of novel, pragmatic, scalable assessments of executive functions, emotion regulation, and motivation.
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Presented by Jelena Obradović, Ph.D., Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University Abstract: In this talk, Professor Obradović shares how con...
