Season 2: Positioning Developmental Psychology

Season Two of How Ideas Travel (HIT2) is devoted to Positioning Developmental Psychology. HIT2 highlights local values of active human development researchers working in different regions of the world, from different positions within those regions. Our goal is to convene transnational conversations that broaden the meaning of human development from perspectives in the global south. This decolonial shift considers urgent concerns and priorities of scholars in South America, Africa, and East Asia.

HIT2 Season 1

South American Scholars

Alicia Barreiro (Argentina), Maria Loreto Martinez (Chile), Andres Molano (Colombia), Susana Frisancho (Peru), and Alejandro Vasquez (Uruguay), and Colette Daiute

Episode 1: Central Challenges in Developmental Psychology in South America

	Alicia Barreiro (Argentina) is a PhD in Educational Sciences and Postdoctoral Studies in Social Sciences, Magister in Educational Psychology. She is a Professor of Genetic Psychology and Epistemology at the University of Buenos Aires, and an endowed researcher at the National Scientific and Technological Research Council (CONICET-Argentine) at the Latina American Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research interests are focused on the construction of social knowledge and moral development of children, adolescents and adults, combining social and developmental psychology approaches.
	Maria Loreto Martinez (Chile) is a full professor of Psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and director of Penta UC, an educational program to promote the manifestation of talents in advanced students. She graduated as a a professional psychologist at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and obtained her M. A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Maryland, U.S. Her training includes developmental, clinical, social and community psychology. Her research interests focus on children and adolescents ́social and emotional development in particular, issues of identity, autonomy and civic development in adolescents. Her research has been funded by the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FONDECYT). She has published work on neighborhood effects in young children.
	Andres Molano (Colombia) is the executive director of the Colombian National Institute of Educational Assessment (ICFES). Prior to this position he was an associated professor of human development and education at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and a senior research scientist affiliated to the Global Ties for Children center at New York University. His basic developmental work focuses on the time-variant effects of peer social networks on learning and social and emotional development.
	Susana Frisancho (Peru)is a Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Perú. Dr. Frisancho focuses on cultural and cognitive development among indigenous peoples, among other related topics. She is also the Principal Professor and Coordinator of the Research Group on Cognition, Learning and Development.
	Alejandro Vasquez (Uruguay) is a Full Professor. Instituto de Fundamentos y Métodos en Psicología. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República; Co-Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Cognition in Learning and Teaching (CICEA); Member of the National System of Researchers, Uruguay; Member of the Program for the Development of Basic Sciences, Uruguay. Professor Vasquez’s research is organized in two main branches: (a) large-scale assessment of psychological development, especially in early childhood and school readiness, and (b) temporal future orientation, both in childhood and in adulthood. From a methodological standpoint, my interests are replicability in psychology, psychometrics, profile analytics, and longitudinal models applied to developmental sciences. We created assessments for the educational system widely used in Uruguay and contributed with analytics of governmental data on early childhood services.

How Ideas Travel Podcast · Season 2, Episode 1: Alicia Barreiro, María Loreto Martínez, Alejandro Vasquez, Andrés Molano