Instructions for Submitting Proposals to First ISCAR Congress

Instructions for Submitting Proposals

30 January 2005 is DEADLINE for submissions to the First ISCAR Congress.

Proposals must be submitted by e-mail to: iscar2005@iscar.org

For papers and posters include:

title
author´s name
mailing address
e-mail address
400-500 word summary (max)
reference to one of the congress themes/topics.

For symposium include:

title of symposium, and indication of chosen format
title of papers
name, mail address and e-mail address of organizers and participants
400-500 word summary (max) of each paper
250 word description (max) of the theme of the symposium and its relation to the congress theme or to one of its subthemes.

Congress Themes and Subthemes

A) Theoretical and Methodological Issues - New trends in Cultural-Historical theory and research - Cognition in social practices - Diversity and heterogeneity of mind - Emotion and subjectivity in culture - Self, identity, and culture - Semiotic mediation and meaning construction - Narrative construction of self - Methodological challenges in cultural and social research - Theoretical and methodological problems in Activity Theory - Qualitative research and social practice - Problems of the unit of analysis B) Acting in changing worlds - Socialization, interaction, and human development - Ways of discourse, modes of thinking and forms of participation - Learning and knowledge construction in social practice - School practices, interaction, and discourse - Argumentation, negotiation, and intercultural communication - Literacy in changing worlds - Citizenship in changing world - Doing gender in changing world - Lifelong learning in changing worlds - New technologies, communication, and identity - Working place and new technologies - New ways of teaching-learning and technology - Sociocultural approaches to therapy practices - Intervention programs in institutions (design and assessment)