How do digital and multilingual environments shape early learning? Join Georgetown’s Rachel Barr to explore what it means to grow up in a complex world. Everyone welcome!

How do children learn in a world filled with screens, languages, and diverse everyday experiences?

Join Professor Rachel Barr from Georgetown University for Growing Up in a Complex World, part of Cardiff University’s Towards Complexity seminar series. Rachel will explore how digital and multilingual environments shape early learning, and why capturing their complexity matters.

Drawing on her research into children’s learning from media and their experiences of multilingual environments, Rachel will discuss frameworks for understanding the complex worlds in which children grow and learn.

Thursday 29 October 2026, 1pm
CUBRIC, Seminar Room 2, Cardiff University

Everyone is welcome, including colleagues and students from across disciplines.

For more information, please email us at [email protected]

Location

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Seminar Room 2
Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre
Maindy Road
Cardiff
CF24 4HQ

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