How Ideas Travel - Curriculum Ideas | Season 2 Episode 2

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

Colette Daiute

Alicia Barreiro

Alicia Barreiro

Co-Conveners: Colette Daiute & Alicia Barreiro
Editor: Bridget Woods
Music: Jack J. Wright
Art: Gooloc/Jamie-Lee Barden
Contact: howideastravel@gmail.com

Season Two of How Ideas Travel 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.

Materials

To access any of the materials below, please select the author names to download a PDF.

 

Fabienne Anoua

Brou, A. M., Djalega, F. A., Tokpa, V., Seri, E., Anoua, A., & Robinson, J. A. (2023). Urban–rural differences in the relationship between stunting, preschool attendance, home learning support, and school readiness: A study in Côte d’Ivoire. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, Article 1035488. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1035488 

Djalega, F. D., Tokpa, V., Gbala Seri, E. D., Djalega,F. A., Anoua, L. F., & Josiane Kouame, A. M. (2025). Jacobs Foundation-ISSBD Doctoral Fellowship Program in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa: Summary and review. International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development  Bulletin, 1(87), 37-42.

Ejuu Godfrey

Ejuu, G. (2019) African indigenous games: Using Bame Nsamenang’s Africentric thoughts to reflect on our heritage, pedagogy, and practice in a global village, Journal of Psychology in Africa, 29 (4), 319-327, https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2019.1647496 

Ejuu, G. & Nandera, M. (2026). Contextualising Gender-Responsive Pedagogy in the Home-based Model to Increase Participation of Fathers in Childcare in Uganda, Ghana and Liberia. East African Journal of Education Studies, 9(1), 665-675. https://doi.org/10.37284/eajes.9.1.4563

Kofi Marfo

Marfo, K. (2024). Toward a globally inclusive knowledge base on adolescent development: A charge to the Majority World and a plea for epistemic and paradigmatic pluralism. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 34(2), 507-512. https://10.1111/jora.12979 

Marfo, K. (2016). Context and the advancement of a global science of human development: A commentary. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 81(1), 172-182. https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.12232 

 

Robert Serpell

Serpell, R. (2019). Special Section: Advancing the research scholarship of Bame Nsamenang. Introduction to the special section by the guest editor. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 29(4), 289–291, https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2019.1654202

Serpell, R. (2020). Culture-sensitive communication in applied developmental research. Human Development, 64, 222-237. https://doi.org/10.1159/000512192  

CURRICULUM IDEAS:

A. Listen to the podcast

  1. Read one or two articles/chapters by one or more of the participants in the podcast.
  2. Write a reflection statement:
  3. What surprised or inspired you most about how scholars in Latin America or Africa think about human development?
  4. What idea or quote you heard or read by the Latin American or African scholar inspired your thinking about human development?
  5. How has listening to this podcast affected your thinking about human development?

 

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howideastravel@gmail.com

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