Ep 33: The joy of (audio)books, and a big reform opportunity in Australia

First things first: this week we’ve got some new music! Have a listen and let us know what you think. (It comes in part-way through.)As for the talking bit: just two segments in this one. Paper Round is about the role of non-screen activities in preschoolers’ social-cognitive development; and Zooming Out looks at the Australian government’s current proposals to reform the classification system. Might we finally be getting a system that can provide parents with useful information about movies and games?Thanks for listening to our podcast. Here is a button to help you share it with somebody who you think would be interestedIn other news, we’re getting a bit more active here on Substack, so you can expect to find some notes and recommendations coming through. Subscribers would have seen a very cute cartoon this afternoon and we’re hoping to find more stuff like that. As always we’ll be really happy to receive any feedback (including your own recommendations about creators we could follow). Now on with the Notes!Show notesGerman paper: Jan Lenhart and Tobias Richter, 'Media exposure and preschoolers’ social-cognitive development' British Journal of Developmental Psychology Early Access Date: FEB 2024PISA rankings: As you’ll see here, in 2022 Germany was below Australia in maths, but on the same level as the USA. Anything you want to say about that?Zooming Out details: Stage Two reforms; Stage One reforms; Elizabeth Handsley and Wayne Warburton, ‘“Material likely to harm or disturb them”: Testing the alignment between classification decisions and psychological research evidence’ (2021) 29 Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 68-92 https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2021.1904446Find us on:FacebookInstagramSubstackApple PodcastsSpotifyOR search your favourite listening platform (let us know if we’re not there! – outsidethescreenpod[at]gmail.com)Children and Media Australia (CMA): Website; KBYG Weekly newsletter; FacebookKim’s clinic Get full access to Outside the Screen Podcast at outsidethescreen.substack.com/subscribe