Roberta Golinkoff, PhD

H. Rodney Sharp Professor, School of Education, University of Delaware

Dr. Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Education at the University of Delaware, has held the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the James McKeen Cattell prize for her research on language development.

Her other research focus on the benefits of play has yielded Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children’s Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth (Oxford), and Celebrate the Scribble (Crayola).

To reveal the benefits of playful learning, she wrote the award-winning Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less (Rodale) and A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool: Presenting the Evidence (Oxford).

She is also an associate editor of Child Development, the premier journal in her field, and has appeared on numerous radio and television shows and in print media.  Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the National Institutes of Health.