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Wednesday 19/6                                                                  10.15 – 12.15

 

Invited symposia

 

III.1      Educational design: new tools and meaningful literacies for “live” identities

Room:

Organiser: Amelia Álvarez (University of Salamanca)

Chair & Discussant: Harry Daniels  (University of Birmingham)

Name

Paper

Franks, A.

Dramatic activity, multimodal discourse and theories of learning: looking towards the future?

Najera, O.M.

The everyday meaning of literacy tools CANCELLED

Olmos, A

Play, drama and self-narratives in Mexican children: self writing and school failure

Rio, P. del & Álvarez, A.

Dramatic theory and developmental identities. Education and self-writing of life CANCELLED

Ramirez, J.D.

Rethinking literacy. Cross-road between cultural psychology and history of culture
MOVED HERE FROM SESSION III.20

 

III.2      Literacy, diversity and empowerment

Room:

Organiser & Chair: Adrian Blackledge (University of Birmingham)

Name

Paper

Bagga-Gupta, S.

Everyday dealings in diversity and written communication: explorations and signs of deaf-hearing membership in institutional spaces CANCELLED

Blackledge, A.

Literacies, diversity and empowerment

Jaffe, A.

Cooperative learning in a Corsican bilingual classroom

Obondo, M.A.

Creating zones of power: socialization of expository literacy in a Somali pre-school in a Swedish immigrant suburb CANCELLED

Matusov, E.

Print literacy as oppression MOVED HERE FROM SESSION III.20

Oliveira, M. do Socorro

The relation between text and process in the search of comprehension of writer's identity processes CANCELLED

 

III.3      Working and learning across boundaries between diverse activity systems (I)

(to be continued: see IV.1)

Room:

Organiser & Chair: Yrjö Engeström (University of California/ University of Helsinki)

Name

Paper

Blackler, F. & Kennedy, A.

Expansive learning and leader development in the English national health service

Capper, Ph., Hill, R., Wilson, K. & Harvey, O.

Activity theory as a design principle for virtual team development in a rapidly expanding manufacturing company

Clases, C.

Organizational memory re-visited: re-defining the problem of the problem as the boundary-crossing coordination of knowledge oriented cooperation

Engeström, Y. , Engeström, R. & Kerosuo, H.

Boundary crossing actions as steps toward negotiated knotworking

Haavisto, V. & Puonti, A.

Working and learning across boundaries in courts of law and in investigations of economic crime

Jacucci, G.

Facing the monsters: Drifting technology and controlling actors

Owen, Chr.

Negotiating collaborative work activity across two activity systems: The case of pilots and air traffic control

Toiviainen, H. & Toikka, K.

Working and learning across boundaries in manufacturing partnerships

                                                                                                                       

 

Organised symposia

 

III.4      Design and activity: conceptualizing diverse resources of imagination in design & technology production (I)

(to be continued, see IV.2)

Room:

Organisers: Judith Gregory (University of Oslo) & Jonna Kangasoja (University of Helsinki)

Chair: Judith Gregory

Discussant:

Name

Paper

Bratteteig, T.

Understanding difference and relations in design

Gregory, J.

Incomplete utopian projects: resources of imagination in design of innovation-in-the-making

Iacucci, G. & Iacucci,I.

Imagination in improvised performance for design

Kangasoja, J.

Constructing the future city: planning ideals and economic realities in the design of a wired district in Finland

Korento, K.

New challenges for shared object creation in managing requirements: an activity theoretical approach CANCELLED

Lehenkari, J. & Hyysalo, S.

Constructing the future use of a medical database: the challenge of integrating multiple viewpoints

 

 

III.5      Developmental transfer – novel solution to transfer problems? (I)

(to be continued: see IV.3)

Room:

Organiser & Chair: Terttu Tuomi-Gröhn (University of Helsinki)

Discussant: David Guile (University of London)

Name

Paper

Konkola, R.

Boundary-zone activity as a model for collaboration and learning between school and work

Lahn, L.

Boundary crossing zones in working life: between developmental transfer and translation

Lambert, P.

Learning in research and collaboration forum within teacher education program

Ludvigsen, S. & Flo, C.F.

Developmental transfer in teacher education. Analysis of activities and the agents meaning making between different activity systems

 

 

III.6      Culture, semiotics in Vygotsky’s thinking: antecedents and perspectives (I)

(to be continued, see IV.4)

Room:

Organiser & Chair: Ana Luiza Bustamante Smolka (University of Campinas)

Discussant: Peter Tulviste (Tartu University)

Name

Paper

Elhammoumi, M.

Vygotsky's concept of culture: a Hegelian and Marxist analysis

Lektorsky, V.A.

Sign-mediation, dialogue and self: Vygotsky, Bakhtin and postmodernism

Pino, A.

At the beginning of the child's cultural constitution

Smolka, A.L. Bustamante

Cultural development and history of signs: implications of Vygotsky's emphasis for research today

Wertsch, J.V.

Vygotsky's ambivalent position on semiotics as an investigative source

Zinchenko, V.

Contributions of Shpet's thinking to Vygotskian elaborations

 


III.7      Perspectives on objects of activities (I)

(to be continued, see IV.5)

Room:

Organisers: Victor Kaptelinin (Umeå University, Sweden) & Reijo Miettinen (University of Helsinki)

Chair: Victor Kaptelinin

Name

Paper

Foot, K.

Object: constructed or apprehended?

Hyysalo, S.

Transforming the object of activity in the work of product design

Kaptelinin, V.

Object of activity: making sense of the sense maker

Miettinen, R.

Trajectories of artifact creation and the object of activity

Nardi, B.

Objects of desire: power and pleasure as aspects of object construction CANCELLED

Stetsenko, A.

Activity as object-oriented: Implications for the theory of method

Saari, E.

Symbiosis, contradiction and fragility in the subject-object relationship: a case of two aerosol researchers

Sutter, B.

The guiding function of the object of work

 

 

III.8      Investigating practice in school settings: Making sense of school leadership and classroom teaching

Room:

Organiser: Paul Cobb (Vanderbildt University, Nashville)

Chair & Discussant: Michael Cole (University of California, San Diego)

Name

Paper

Cobb, P.

Situating teaching in the institutional setting of the school and the school district

Franke, M., Kazemi, E. & Battey, D.

Changing teachers' professional work in mathematics: the evolution of leadership

Gomez, L.M., Bouillion, L.M. & Kwako, L.

Taking the reflective turn: finding the sense in local versions of an innovation

Spillane, J.P.

Investigating school leadership practice: what's activity theory got to offer?

 

 

III.9      Why streets are wet? Or how to be in the shoes of our subject?!

Room:

Organisers: Alexander Baucal (University of Belgrade) & Nathalie Muller (University of Neuchâtel)

Chair: A. Baucal

Name

Paper

Baucal, A.

How to access and describe implicit network of meaning people construct about self or some phenomenon: a proposition

Baucal, A., Muller, N., Perret-Clermont, A-N. & Marro, P.

Nice designed experiment goes to the local community

Bergman, M.M.

Fact vs fiction: three levels of interpretation in empirical social science research

Zittoun, T.

Naming a child, constructing meanings - an interpretative analysis

 

 

III.10     Cultural transitions of young children in day care centres and (pre)schools

Room:

Organisers: Maritta Hännikäinen (University of Jyväskylä) & Elly Singer (University of Utrecht)

Chair: Maritta Hännikäinen

Name

Paper

de Haan, D. & Singer, E.

Conflict resolution of toddlers: an analysis of the teacher's role in the transition of non-verbal strategies to verbal strategies of conflict resolution

Hännikäinen, M.

Development of togetherness in a preschool community of learners

Oliveira, Z. de Moraes Ramos de

The collage of experience's fragments in young children's languages

Rossetti-Ferreira, M.C. & Amorim, K.S.

The complex "Networks of Meanings" that constrains the insertion of babies and their families into day care

 

 

III.11     Multiple lenses to peer interaction and collaborative problem solving: situational, cross-cultural and developmental analyses

Room:

Organiser: Kristiina Kumpulainen (University of Oulu), Eva Liisa Kronqvist (University of Oulu), Diny van der Aalsvoort (Leiden University)

Chair: Kristiina Kumpulainen

Discussant: Manfred Holodynski (Bielefeld University)

Name

Paper

Aalsvoort, G. van der

Qualifying social interaction between kindergarten and elementary school students

Kronqvist, E.-L.

Initiations and conflicts in peer problem solving from the developmental perspective

Kumpulainen, K.

Tracing intersubjectivity in peer problem solving

 

 

III.12     Biological conditions (genetic and physiological) in the explanation of the process of human psychological formation and development

Room:

Organiser: D. Campo Gallardo (University of Havana)

Chair: Guillermo Beatón

Name

Paper

Arias Beatón, G.

Different considerations of the dynamic of biology, society and culture in the explanation of human development

Campa Gallardo, D.

Nature versus nurture: Old polemic or contemporary issue?

Pedrol Troiteiro, M.S.

The human genome and psychology

 

 

III.13       Sociocultural theory and learning contexts (continued)

Room:

Organiser:                    Anne Edwards  (University of Birmingham)

Chair & Discussant:      David Middleton (University of Loughborough, Leicester)

See II.8

 


III.14     Creativity, collaboration and technology in the social construction of knowledge

Room:

Organisers: Manuel Fernandez (Open University) & Teresa Dillon (Open University)

Chair & Discussant: Rupert Wegerif (Open University)

Name

Paper

Dillon, T.

Collaborating on well-defined and ill-defined problems

Fernandez, F.

Collaborative writing of hypermedia documents and the social construction of knowledge

Meijden, H. van der, Kleine Staarman, J., & Laat, M. de

Studying the dynamic process of peer interaction in different computer supported collaborative settings

Vass, E.

Computer supported collaborative writing in the primary classroom. Just a little help from my friend…

 

 

III.15     Methodologies of decolonisation: Revealing the promise of special education students and their teachers

Room:

Organiser & Chair: Kathleen M. Collins (University of San Diego)

Discussant: Bob Donmoyer (University of San Diego)

Name

Paper

Collins, K.M.

"I was always a good learner." Narrative analysis and the decolonization of marginalized chldren

Goodman, J.

Re-positioning as decolonizing methodology: teachers take the role of co-learners

McPhail, J.

Changing our line of vision through decolonizing methologies in special education

Palincsar, A., & Magnusson, S.

Examining teaching and learning together: decolonizing aspects of general education teachers' guided reading of case studies

 

 

Paper symposia

 

III.16     Cultural identities

Room:

Chair: Fran Hagstrom

Name

Paper

Abreu, G. de, Silva, T. & Lambert, H.

Cultural identity of Portuguese students in English schools

Ivanova, E., & Ivanova, O.

Does national identity exist? Cultural diversity in Ukraine

Karran, K.

Multi-ethnic music and national identity discourse in Trinidad end Tobago CANCELLED

Macías Gómez-Estern, B., Sánchez Medína, J.A. & García Amián, J.

The construction of cultural identity through migratory experience. A study from Cultural-Historical psychology

Vyas, S.

Putting together the theoretical pieces of the bicultural identity puzzle

 

III.17     Problems of multiculturality

Room:

Chair: Jan Terwel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Name

Paper

Benlloch, M., Martinez, F. & Feu, M.T.

Adaptation process in a multicultural classroom

Mthembu, B. & Mhlongo, B.

Forming a meaningful culture for a multicultural classroom at Technikon Natal CANCELLED

Oppedal, B., Heyerdahl, S. & Røysamb, E.

Adolescents' mental health in a multicultural society: the association of social group identity, family values and variations in expression of perceived strengths and difficulties

O'Toole, S. & de Abreu, G.

Living in someone else's garments: the impact of parents' school experiences on the child's current educational experiences from a multicultural standpoint

 

 

III.18     Foreign language teaching

Room:

Chair: Peter Smagorinsky

Name

Paper

Becket, G.H.

Project framework as a tool in second language and culture learning CANCELLED

Dworin, J.E.

Vygotsky and biliteracy research: Toward a theory of bilingual pedagogy

Huong, Le Pham Hoai

Sociocultural theory and teaching English as a foreign language

Kouznetsov, A.N.

Influence of cultural and activity diversity on foreign language teaching content

Wal-Pastoor, L. de

Minority children's second language learning in a multicultural classroom context: a sociocultural approach

 

 

III.19     Activity systems analyses (2)

Room:

Chair: A. Baucal

Name

Paper

Hill, R., Botha, N., Capper, P. & Wilson, K.

Working and learning across boundaries between sheep farmers, a meat processing company and two research organisations

Mankkinen, T.

Analysis of the primary contradictions in competence among the firefighters in Helsinki

McCarthy, J., Wright, P. & Meekison, L.

Some characteristics of user experience of brand and electronic shopping

Scott Smith, C. & Francovich, C.

Development of a structural model of activity and a method for analyzing activity systems

 

III.20     Cultural dynamics, identity and literacy SESSION CANCELLED

Room:

Chair:

Name

Paper

Araujo, A. Dilamar

The writing as social practice: a study of writer's identity(ies) in academic discourse CANCELLED

Matusov, E.

Print literacy as oppression MOVED TO SESSION III.2

Oliveira, M. do Socorro

The relation between text and process in the search of comprehension of writer's identity processes CANCELLED

Ramirez, J.D.

Rethinking literacy. Cross-road between cultural psychology and history of culture MOVED TO SESSION III.1

 

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