
To Go Making Paths
Joan Bliss(Author)
Matador (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-78088-010-5 (ISBN)
Description
To Go Making Paths is the follow-up to Joan's first book, A Path Made by Walking, and covers her life after leaving England aged 19, with just GBP20.00 in her pocket, to the next 16 years she spent living abroad and travelling the world.
Joan led a fascinating life and To Go ;Making Paths takes us from her early years struggling to make ends meet in the South of France, to her job with a shady diamond dealer and to writing gossip columns, letters to the editor and horoscopes for a local paper. Latterly, realising she wanted more from life, she worked to gain entry to Geneva University, studying child development with world famous psychologist, Jean Piaget. Seeing her qualities, Piaget appointed her to the university staff while she was still an undergraduate. Her growing reputation led to further opportunities - such as teaching in the USA and making films for the BBC about child development.
Joan worked with Piaget until he retired, taking on responsibility for part of a large project designed to improve the teaching of mathematics in the UK, and this period is also covered in To Go Making Paths. Later she returned to the UK to teach maths in a UK university. Soon after, she met her future husband and from there a whole new life opened up.
Joan led a fascinating life and To Go ;Making Paths takes us from her early years struggling to make ends meet in the South of France, to her job with a shady diamond dealer and to writing gossip columns, letters to the editor and horoscopes for a local paper. Latterly, realising she wanted more from life, she worked to gain entry to Geneva University, studying child development with world famous psychologist, Jean Piaget. Seeing her qualities, Piaget appointed her to the university staff while she was still an undergraduate. Her growing reputation led to further opportunities - such as teaching in the USA and making films for the BBC about child development.
Joan worked with Piaget until he retired, taking on responsibility for part of a large project designed to improve the teaching of mathematics in the UK, and this period is also covered in To Go Making Paths. Later she returned to the UK to teach maths in a UK university. Soon after, she met her future husband and from there a whole new life opened up.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Market Harborough
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Troubador Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78088-010-5 (9781780880105)
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Person
Joan Bliss was born just before World War II into a working class family. Obliged to leave school at the age of sixteen, she soon abandoned post-war England for the continent. In 1971 she returned to an academic post in the UK.