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

Colette Daiute

Nancy Budwig

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.
Cintia Rodríguez
Cintia Rodríguez

Episode 2: Collaboration with Passion

Cintia Rodríguez is a professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Autónoma in Madrid, Spain. She studied in the School of Geneva where she had the opportunity to work as an assistant on Bärbel Inhelder’s team. Cintia’s experience in the Groupe Stratégies et résolution de problems (Strategies and problem solving group) provided the chance to work on microgenetic analysis with Madelson Saada-Robert, greatly influencing her research.

Professor Rodriguez has collaborated with C. Moro in Geneva, and the two are leading figures in understanding the pragmatics of the object in early socio-cognitive development. Recently, Dr. Rodriguez has been studying the early manifestations of executive functions in everyday contexts during the first year of life and in school settings, examining the challenges give themselves as active agents in their own development and the supportive actions by teachers.

An international scholar, Rodriguez spent two sabbatical years abroad, in the 1997-1998 academic year at Clark University, Worcester, MA. USA, and in 2004-2005 at Portsmouth University (UK). She also has had several stays in South America: Mexico, Brazil, Chili, Colombia and Argentina, as well as traveling regularly throughout Europe. Cintia Rodriguez has published extensively in Spanish, French, and English. She has authored or co-authored 5 books and edited volumes, multiple book chapters, and journal articles in prestigious outlets such as Cognitive Development, Human Development, and New Ideas in Psychology.

https://deteduca.com/mesmerize/c-rodriguez/

 

SUGGESTED READINGS:

Rodríguez, C., Basilio, M., Cárdenas, K., Cavalcante, S., Moreno-Núñez, A., Palacios, P., & Yuste, N. (2018). Object pragmatics: Culture and communication – the bases for early cognitive development. In A. Rosa & J. Valsiner (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of socio-cultural psychology (2.a ed., pp. 223-244). New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316662229.013.

 

Rodríguez, C. & Moreno-Llanos, I. (2020). A pragmatic turn in the study of early executive functions by object use and gestures. A case study from 8 to 17 months of age at a nursery school. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science.

Rodríguez, C., Estrada, L., Moreno-Llanos, I., & de los Reyes, J. L. (2017). Executive Functions and educational actions in an Infant School: Private uses and gestures at the end of the first year. Estudios de Psicología, 38(2), 385-423. https://doi.org/10.1080/02109395.2017.1305061

Video and related article for curricular exercise: (in curricular assignments folder)

Rodríguez, C. and Palacios, P. (2007). Do private gestures have a self-regulatory function? A Case Study. Infant Behavior and Development, 30, 180-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.02.010

 

 

CURRICULUM IDEAS:

A. Listen to the podcast

  1. Professor Rodriquez reflects on her multi-decade career that took her from Madrid to Geneva and back to Madrid. Which of her reflections about her experiences stood out to you? Why?
  2. How did Rodriguez 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?
  3. What question would you ask Professor Rodriquez if you had the opportunity?
  4. Does her advice resonate? What does it make you think about as you advance in your career?
  5. Read one or two articles provided by the interviewee.
  6. Read one paper on the pragmatics of objects and one on early learning.
  7. What commonalities and what differences do you see in these articles

 

Excertps from How Ideas Travel Podcast: Episode Two

Cintia Rodríguez
Cintia Rodríguez
Cintia Rodríguez
Cintia Rodríguez
Cintia Rodríguez
Cintia Rodríguez
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