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Speaker<\/strong>
\nJeremy Burman<\/p>\n

Details<\/strong>
\nI am presently the Director of Research at The MEHRIT Centre, a non-profit spin-off of a research institute that had been based at York from 2005-2013. I was also recently named the Norman S. Endler Research Fellow and Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellow at York University. Normally, though, I would be teaching introductory and advanced developmental psychology. My primary interest, there, is in helping students to help children. And, in this, my goals as a teacher relate to my primary concerns as a writer.<\/p>\n

As an historian and theoretician, my contribution to the science of psychology comes by way of clearly explaining ideas that have previously not been well-understood, or which have been dismissed for reasons that no longer make sense. To this end, I have found that there is nothing better to encourage clear thinking than interacting with students in the classroom or with peers at conference talks and colloquia: if they\u2019re bored, or can\u2019t understand, then the writing won\u2019t be effective either. My goal is therefore to entertain and explain, both in class and outside of it; this material is difficult, but it doesn't have to be painful.<\/p>\n

My paper for HT-Talks is the first part of a two-part presentation with Laura Ball about \u201cknowledge translation.\u201d I will introduce translation as a problem affecting how psychologists understand the sources of their ideas. This is obvious when the importations are from \u201cforeign\u201d sources, but much more pernicious when they\u2019re from other disciplines. (I talked about this latter problem specifically when I discussed \u201cthe misunderstanding of memes\u201d at HT-Talks a few years ago.) I will also present some of the methods that I have been developing in order to demonstrate that this problem is in fact a source of opportunity for historians, some of which are \u201cdigital.\u201d<\/p>\n

My primary \u201ctopic affiliation\u201d is to the history of developmental psychology, with particular emphasis on the last works of Jean Piaget. But I think of my project as epistemological: I am not so much concerned with the \u201ccontent\u201d of Piaget\u2019s so-called \u201cnew theory\u201d as I am with the fact that we call it \u201cnew.\u201d (They don\u2019t do that in French.) Indeed, this focus on meaning seems to be the theme underlying most of my work. And it\u2019s the main focus of my dissertation, which I aim to complete in time for the Summer 2014 start times posted for most new faculty hires.<\/p>\n

My work is discussed and described at my website:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.students.yorku.ca\/~jtburman\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I would be delighted to discuss any of it with anyone who cares.<\/p>\n

Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n