Stance of Curiosity
Child Psychologists Joelle vanLent and Gillian Boudreau tackle topics related to schooling in our modern times including navigating impossible expectations and the power of curiosity in education, empowering educators to redefine success, overcoming fear and shame and their effects on school communities with open dialogue, and balancing high demands with compassion and understanding.
Stance of Curiosity
Navigating Impossible Expectations: The Power of Curiosity in Education
In which Joelle and Gillian think they are doing a dress rehearsal for the first episode but surprise themselves and the world by identifying a bit of a mission statement of their work and of this podcast thereby stumbling upon a real episode. The mission statement: To protect the “natural resources” of the bandwidth, emotional energy and creative thinking of children and adults in schools by addressing all that threatens slowing down and connecting to one another. They define the main threat to that as being a sense of urgency and being caught in an impossible web of “supposed tos” in modern schooling, and in particular the risk of personalizing the inability to do everything one is “supposed to” rather than locating that as a flaw in the system. They discuss the impact of fear on the brain, and the way that curiosity serves as an antidote to the closing down of possibility that fear tends to bring in. They also define some practical ways to use the stance of curiosity, in particular looking for questions in hard situations to connect, empathize and make sense of our own and others’ responses.
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