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Wednesday 19/6                                                                  13.30 – 15.30

 

Invited symposia

 

IV.1      Working and learning across boundaries between diverse activity systems (continued)

Room:

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

See III.3

 

 

Organised symposia

 

IV.2      Design and activity: conceptualizing diverse resources of imagination in design & technology production (continued)

Room:

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

Chair: Judith Gregory

See III.4

 

IV.3      New challenges to transfer – discussions between different approaches (continuation of III.5)

Room:

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

Discussant: David Guile (University of London)

Name

Paper

Beach, K., Hundersmarck, S. & Vassallo, S.

Generalization between certification and work aspects of a trade apprenticeship class: an illustration of mediational consequential transitions

Simons, R.-J.

Cognitivistic/constructivistic approaches to transfer CANCELLED

Tuomi-Gröhn, T.

New tools for boundary crossing - conceptual elaborations of the developmental transfer

Young, M.

Knowledge and transfer in vocational education. A discussion of activity theory approaches

 

IV.4      Culture, semiotics in Vygotsky’s thinking: antecedents and perspectives (continued)

Room:

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

Discussant: Peter Tulviste (Tartu University)

See III.6

 

IV.5      Perspectives on objects of activities (continued)

Room:

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

Chair: Victor Kaptelinin

See III.7

 

IV.6      Curriculum development, Design and Research

Room

Organiser & Chair: Baruch Schwarz (Hebrew University)

Discussant: Roger Säljö (Göteborg University)

Name

Paper

Cobb, P.

Supporting the collective learning of students and teachers

Herschkowitz, R.

Curriculum development and computerized environments in mathematics

Scanlon, E. & Issroff, K.

Activity theory in curriculum design and evaluation: some examples of technology use in higher education

 

IV.10    Writing in the organization, Mediation, and Realization of Activity Systems and Actors

Room:

Organiser & Chair: Charles Bazerman (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Discussant: Peter Smagorinsky

Name

Paper

Bazerman, Ch.

The socio-historically situated, textually mediated production of action and agents

Berkenkotter, C.

Asylum notes and patient identities: The historical antecedents of psychiatric case histories

IV.11     Cultural-Historical activity theory in the context of today's challenges: Understanding the meaning, the status and the liberating potential of CHAT

Room:

Organiser & Chair:         Anna Stetsenko (City University of New York)

Discussant:         Alfred Lang (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Name

Paper

Cole, M.

CHAT - Rather a reconfiguration of the humane sciences than a Metatheory for psychology

Jones, P.

Language in Cultural-Historical perspective

Leontiev, D.A.

Activity theory: New times - new focuses

Stetsenko, A.

CHAT: an investigative project with a unique liberating potential

IV.13    Overcoming methodological challenges in the study of identity as a cultural-historical phenomenon

Room:

Organiser & Chair:         Micheline Silva (Clark University) & Seth Surgan (Clark University)

Discussant:                   Hubert Hermans (Nijmegen University)

Name

Paper

Abbey, E. & Josephs, I.

Perception of ambiguity in identity: strength in dialogue

Lyra, E. & Ribeiro, A.K.R.

Ricoeur's conception of time and narrative: A methodological exploration

Surgan, S., Silva, M., Blot, K.

Reflections upon the nature and role of data within the methodological cycle: Metatheoretical issues concerning cultural-historical study of identity

 

Paper symposia

 

IV.7      Activity systems analyses (3)

Room

Chair: J. McCarthy

Name

Paper

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

Using DWR tools for business process redesigned in a design-led company: what we learned in our work with team A

Koistinen, K.

An activity theoretical method for analyzing disturbances

Korpela, M., Mursu, A. & Soriyan, H. Abimbola.

Activity networks in context: ACTAD as a method for information systems research and practice in Nigeria

Kyhlbäck, H.

Utilizing a peer-to-peer methodology in municipal health care work - a design challenge

 

IV.8      The formation of (sub)cultural identity

Room:

Chair: Leslie Herrenkohl

Name

Paper

Flores Farfan, José Antonio

Education, identity and language revitalization in Mexico

Ivanova, O., & Rowe, S.

Diverse museums in diverse society: identity formation in museums in Ukraine

Lambert, H., & Worrell, M.

Masculine identity within the armed forces

Walker, D.

Rethinking context and activity in relation to transnational youth

 

IV.9      Teaching at the university level

Room

Chair: Rosario Cubero (University of Seville, Spain)

Name

Paper

Akhurst, John, & Akhurst, Jacqui

Increasing access to under-prepared students: challenges to university staff development

Alarcon, I., Ortega, R., Perez, G., Salguero, A. & Yoseff, J.J.

Learning cultural psychology in practice: an experience from the national university of Mexico

Cubero, R., de la Mata, M., Santamaria, A., Ignacio, M.J., Prados, M.M. & Ramirez, J.D.

Construction of knowledge on psychology in university classrooms

Giannella, T.R. & Struchiner, M.

Activity theory as a framework for designing and analysing a virtual learning environment for university staff

Savina, E.

Teaching and learning of psychology as a socio-cultural practice

IV.12    The social context of identity formation

Room:

Chair: José Sánchez Medina

Name

Paper

Jackson, J.

Voices of transition: the discourse of identity in Hong Kong

Marco Macarro, M.J. & Sänchez Medina, J.A.

Building identity through discourse: generations, historic-political experiences and cultural identifications

Podlucká, D.

Self as an activity in the socio-cultural and physical context: linking socio-cultural and environmental psychology traditions

Volman, M., Wardekker, W. & ten Dam, G.

Making sense through participation: social differences in learning and identity development

 

 

Organised poster sessions

 

 

IV.15    Cultural development and non-typical subjects (POSTER SESSION)

Room:

Organiser :        Ana Luiza Bustamante Smolka (University of Campinas)

Chair: Adriana Laplane               

Discussant :      Harry Daniels (University of Birmingham)

Name

POSTER

Domingues, C. dos Anjos & de Laplane, A.L.F.

The appropriation of social practices : culture, technology and visual impairments

Freitas, A.P de

The study of "non-typical" subjects and conceptual issues about proximal development

Hagstrom, F. & Harrison, M.B.

Use of virtual and social others during computer mastery by children with learning disabilities

Junefelt, K,

A blind child's oral, written and read narrative text

Kassar, M. de Carvalho Magalhães

Subjects talking about their own schooling process: the case of special classrooms for exceptional children CANCELLED

Morato, E.M.

Discursive movements and meaning construction in interactions between aphasic and non-aphasic people

Souza, F.F. de

The dancing body: possiblities of aphasic subjects

 

IV.18    The network of meanings perspective: a theoretical and methodological proposal for the study of human development (POSTER SESSION)

Room:

Organiser & chair: M. Clotilde Rossetti-Ferreira (University of São Paulo)

Discussants: Jaan Valsiner (Clark University) & Fernando Luiz Gonzalez Rey  (University of Brasilia/University of Havana)

Name

POSTER

Amorim, K.S.

Babies' health/disease processes in day care center

Amorim, K.S.

The socio-historical matrix and its concreteness in the here-and-now situations

Furlan, R.

The meaning of sense and meaning

Oliveira, Z. M.R. & Borges, N.R.A.C.

The dialogical intersubjectivity: role-playing and positioning

Rossetti-Ferreira, M.C., Amorim, K.S. & Silva, A.P.S.

The NETWORK OF MEANINGS perspectives: Basic concepts and theoretical assumptions

Silva, A.P.S.

Person, self and narrative in the network of meanings perspective

Silva, A.P.S., Carvalho, A.A.. & Rossetti-Ferreira, M.C

Constraints and entanglements

Silva, A.P.S., Gosuen, A. & Rossetti-Ferreira, M.C

The use of network as a metaphor to understand developmental processes

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

The inclusion/exclusion process of children with cerebral palsy in preschool

 

IV.19    Examining outcomes of the Chicago Comer SDP: school, climate and child well-being (POSTER SESSION)

Room:

Organiser:         Diana Slaughter-Defoe (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)

Name

POSTER

Edgecombe, N. & Ritter, G.

Student ranked social supports

Johnson, D.J.

Children's race-related problem solving

Loseth, V. & Arhur-Boswell, C.

The Chicago Comer School Development Program (SDP)

Matwyshyn, A.

Sate of Illinois School Reform and the Comer Model

Slaughter-Defoe, D.T. & Kim, J-R

School and teacher climate, self-concept, and academic achievement: Third grade outcomes of the Chicago Comer SDP

 

IV.20    Cultural patterns of participation, attention and help in informal learning activities (POSTER SESSION)

Room:

Organiser: Rebeca Mejía Arauz (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Discussant: Pilar Lacasa (University of Alcalá)

Name

POSTER

Correa-Chávez, M. & Rogoff, B.

Cultural variation in children's attention management during a paper folding activity

Mejía-Arauz, R. & Rogoff, B.

Cultural variation in children's structures of participation in an informal learning activity

Najafi, B.,Mejía-Arauz, R. & Rogoff, B.

Patterns of collaboration and help in children of European-American and Mexican descent

 

 

Poster sessions

 

IV.16    Culture and identity (1) (POSTER SESSION)

Room:

Chair: Diny v.d. Aalsvoort

Name

POSTER

Camillo, A.A., Assunção, C.Valadares, Fontoura, A. Postiglioni & Oliveira, M.C.Santos Lopes de

Urban tribes as developmental context in adolescence

Barbato, S.

Cultural tradition and changing: a study on identity in exclusion and migration in the rural settlements of Distrito Federal, Brazil

André, M. da Consolação & Barbato, S.

Human development and identity - a study on the construction of identity in a QUILOMBOLAS area in Goias, Brazil.

Kadirova, R.G. & Karagezov, R.R.

The role of language of education in the developmenty of national, ethnolinguistic and religious identity of Azeri children and adolescents

Kärkkäinen, M.

The use of information technology in cross-border work at Telecommunication Company - the activity theoretical approach

Philip. V.

Methodology to understand school failure and success from socio-cultural perspective

Ferreira, L.E.

Barriers to educational success for children of Cape Verdian origin

 

IV.17    Learning and assessment (POSTER SESSION)

Room:

Chair: Cecilia Guarneri Batista (Campinas State University, Brazil)

Name

POSTER

Batista, C.G., Nunes, S. da Silveira & Horino, L.E.

Assisted assessment of cognitive abilities in children with organic problems: problems and possible solutions

Coll, C., Onrubia, J. & Naranjo, M.

Inclusive assessment as a need for school education equality CANCELLED

Mauri, T. & Barbera, E.

Assessment as a mediator of the student's building of knowledge

Rochera, M.J., Colomina, R. & Remesal, A.

Interrelation between student's learning asessment and the construction of shared meanings

Tagaki, K.

Zone of proximal development as transformability and contactability of "internal design"

Berglund, A. & Booth, S.

Experiences of learning computer networks in an internationally distributed project

 

 

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