How Ideas Travel - Curriculum Ideas
How Ideas Travel is a podcast series from the Jean Piaget Society for the Study of Knowledge and Development. These conversations, led by Colette Daiute and Nancy Budwig, highlight people who ponder the nature, culture, and dynamics of ideas that fuel the development of individuals and societies. By exploring the personal and interpersonal dimensions of knowledge and knowing, we show how ideas are alive and practical. This series reaches out to everyone interested in ideas as beacons in human life.
Colette Daiute
Nancy Budwig
Co-Conveners: Colette Daiute & Nancy Budwig
Editor: Bridget Woods
Music: Jack J. Wright
Art: Gooloc/Jamie-Lee Barden
Contact: howideastravel@gmail.com
Season One of How Ideas Travel presents personally intellectual stories of how ideas develop across generations. We interview luminaries in the field of human development to explore how they were inspired by a teacher – Jean Piaget, the namesake of our organization – and shifted their foundational ideas and research programs in unpredictable generative ways over time. These stories seek twists and turns of ideas guiding research careers, thereby also raising questions about any linear notion of professional life, like human development. This inaugural series is designed to address the often silent issue of standing on the shoulders of giants while creating knowledge beyond their horizon.
Anne Nelly Clermont
Episode 1: Experiencing Thinking with Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont
CURRICULUM IDEAS:
A. Listen to the podcast
- Professor Anne Nelly Clermont reflects on her multi-decade career that took her from Switzerland to Geneva and back to Switzerland. Which of her reflections about her experiences stood out to you? Why?
- How did Anne Nelly Clermont build upon the ideas of others in Geneva and how did it distinguish itself from that tradition? In what ways has your work built upon others?
- What question would you ask Anne Nelly Clermont if you had the opportunity?
- Does her advice resonate? What does it make you think about as you advance in your career?
- Read one or two articles provided by the interviewee.
- Read one paper on the pragmatics of objects and one on early learning.
- What commonalities and what differences do you see in these articles
Excerpts from How Ideas Travel Podcast: Episode One
Anne Nelly Clermont
An Introduction
Anne Nelly Clermont
Lived Experiences as Piaget’s Student
Anne Nelly Clermont
Research with Children: Haunted by the Deficit Hypothesis
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