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Susan Engel

Title: Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Founding Director of the Program in Teaching

Institution: Williams

Discipline: Psychology & Psychoanalysis

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Notable: Author of seven books including 'The Hungry Mind,' 'The Stories Children Tell,' 'The End of the Rainbow,' and 'The Intellectual Lives of Children'; Nelson Bushnell Award in Teaching and Writing from Williams College (1999); writing in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Salon; co-founder of an experimental school in New York State

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Biography

Susan Engel is a developmental psychologist whose research focuses on the development of curiosity, children's narratives, play, and teaching and learning. She is the author of seven books including 'The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood' and 'The Intellectual Lives of Children,' and is co-founder of an experimental school in New York State.

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