Psychology Kindergarten at the University of Stirling is not the average campus provision. Nor the average nursery. Think more along the lines of The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds, the Channel 4 documentary where researchers observed children behind one-way mirrors.
Here, slap bang in the middle of the university’s psychology department, is a nursery: one where psychology students come to carry out real-life studies about child development. Research takes places discreetly, behind a one-way mirror, but also face-to-face in the kindergarten or in research rooms that are equipped with hi-tech video-monitoring systems. Students observe children’s play, looking at issues around gender, conflict, how pre-schoolers cope with everyday childhood pain and even how they develop the art of lying. Academics are also funded to lead cutting-edge research and pilot new protocols.
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