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Last updated on June 14.

Friday 21/6                                                                          13.30 – 15.30

 

Invited symposia

 

IX.1      Socializing, motivation and academic efficay: the power of a practice

(to be continued: see X.1)

Room:

Organiser & Chair: Jaan Valsiner (Clark University)

Name

Paper

Boyle, J.

Cultural tools, apprenticeship, and teaching out of field

Grolnick, W.S. & Farkas, M.

Patterns of motivation and participation in the investigators' club

Henry, S.

Hearing the learner: developing a common language in the science classroom

Michaels, S.

The practice in practice

Sohmer, R.

Indicators of apprenticeship learning in the investigators' club

 

IX.2      Collective memory (CONTINUED from VIII.2)

Room:

Organiser & Chair:         James V. Wertsch (Washington University)

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

 

 

Organised symposia

 

IX.3      Learning identity in organisations (CONTINUED from VIII.3)

Room:

Organisers:       Anne Edwards & Harry Daniels (University of Birmingham)

Chair:               Willem Wardekker (Free University Amsterdam)

 

IX.4      Remembering the life and works of A.R. Luria (CONTINUED from VIII.4)

Room:

Organisers:       T.V. Akhutina (Moscow State University) & D.A. Robbins

Chair:               Tatiana V. Akhutina

 

IX.5      Dealing with marginality: tracing the partial and the fragile in coordinating the social practices of diverse collaborators (I) -  INTERACTIVE SYMPOSIUM

(to be continued, see X.4)

Room:

Organisers & chairs:       Mervi Hasu (University of Helsinki) & Honorine Nocon (University of California, San Diego)

Discussants:               Susan L. Star & Vera P. John-Steiner

Name

Paper

Hasu, M.

In search for sensitive ethnography of change: tracing the invisible 'hand-offs' from technology developers to users

Helle, M.

Ethnography for intervention - Tracing disturbances and the fleeting moments of uncertainty

Kerosuo, H.

From fragmentation of care towards collaboration

Kontinen, T.

Negotiating shared object or co-constructing asymmetry? Analyzing meetings between Finnish and Tanzanian NGOs in the context of development of Co-operation

Nocon, H. & Nilsson, M.

Virtually-mediated collaboration: negotiating layers of invisibility

Pedersen, B.

Marginalization and power in living with and researching HIV

Silvonen, J.

Voices from double-margins: Bringing the unemployed back into unemployment studies

 


IX.6      The causal-genetic method: applications, implications, results, problems (I)

(To be continued, see X.3)

Room:

Organiser & Chair:         Joachim Lompscher (Potsdam University)

Name

Paper

Burrmann, U.

The intervention programm CASE by Adey, Shayer & Yates CANCELLED

Engeström, Y.

The formation experiment in the area of technology and work

Giest, H.

The formation experiment in the age of hypermedia and distance learning

Oboukhova, L.F.

At the origins of general (developmental) psychology CANCELLED

Szymanski, H.

Integrating educational settings: A research combined with psycho-educational intervention

Walgenbach, W.

Research about "self-activity" in form of "Bildungs-"(formation) experiments

Zuckerman, G.A.

The resolving power and limitations of the causal-genetic method

 

IX.7      Collaborative learning challenge and knowledge management in work and organizations

Room:

Organisers:       Katsuhiro Yamazumi ( Kansai University, Osaka, Japan) & Jianzhong Hong (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland)

Chair:               Katsuhiro Yamazumi

Name

Paper

Engeström, R.

Vulnerability in discourse: dialogical content of developmental research methodology

Hong, J., Ståle, P. & Holland, D.

Knowledge production and management as collaborative learning challenge in global fast changing industries

Hosaka, Y. & Yamazumi, K.

Expansive learning for collaboration challenge: a case of teachers' work in Japanese school

 

IX.8      Constructing and deconstructing zones of disability

Room:

Organiser & Chair:         John St.Julian (University of Delaware)

Discussant:                 

Name

Paper

Drye, S. & Hayes, R.

Finding success: From individual remediation to community building

Hayes, R.

Constructing disability: Child agency in creating failure to learn English

Lacasa, P., Matusov, E., Mendez, L. & Alburquerque, M.

Moving a child from a zone of teaching-learning disability: sociocultural analysis of a "special ed" child's learning money math

Matusov, E., Hayes, R. & Drye, S.

Constructing disability for a child: school system, teacher and accountability

 

IX.9      The centrality of language /dialogue in the classroom

Room:

Organiser & Chair:         Gordon Wells (University of California at Santa Cruz)

Name

Paper

Lemke, J.

A sociocultural framework for the analysis of talk in classrooms

Mercer, N.

Multimedia and mediation in education: Issues of empowerment

Wells, G.

Working toward dialogic inquiry in the classroom

 

IX.10    Play and semiotics

Room:

Organiser & Chair:         Bert van Oers (Free University, Amsterdam)

Name

Paper

Hagstrom, F.

The semiotics of play routines

Junefelt, K.

Play, blindness and dialogicity

Oers, B. van

Inscripting predicates: semiotic activity in children's play

Panhoca, I.

I also want to play

Smolucha, F.

The teening of preschool play MOVED HERE FROM II.16

 

IX.11    The study of learning processes and the diagnostics of development. Symposium dedicated to the 100th anniversary of professor Pėter Galperin

Room:

Organisers & Chair:       Nina F. Talyzina (Moscow State University) & L. Quintanar (Mexico)

Name

Paper

Manske, C.

A reading didactic for children with Trisomie 21 based in Wygotski's activity theory

Oboukhova, L.F.

Action and development. J. Piaget and P. Gal'perin CANCELLED

Petyaeva, D.

Role of " position" in problem-solving tasks

Solovieva, Y. & Quintanar, L.

The role of zone of proximate development in diagnostic of intellectual development

Talyzina, N.F.

Gal'perin's contribution to the activity approach in psychology

 

IX.12    Different worlds, diverse experiences: social interactions in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs)

Room:

Organisers: M. Beatrice (Ligorio University of Salerno, Italy) & Alesandra Talamo ( University of Rome, “La Sapienza”)

Chair: M. Beatrice (Ligorio University of Salerno, Italy)

Name

Paper

ITCOLE research group

Fostering a shared culture to develop a web-based platform for international collaborative learning

Molenaar, I., van der Meijden, H. & Ligorio, M.B.

Edgar Degas: reconstructing his art in a three-dimensional world

Sutter, B.S. & Andersson, R.

Much real ado when acting in a virtual world - a case study

Talamo, A. & Ligorio, M.B.

Real world, virtual resources: objects, identities and communities in the Euroland project

 

 

Paper symposia

 

IX.13    Activity theory in therapy

Room:

Chair: Elly Singer

Name

Paper

Billenstein Schriver, N.

Space, social relations, intentionality and reflection as a basis for learning processes in physiotherapy

Chetty, S.

The classroom as text: resourcing in a rapidly changing political context

Kathard, H.

Life history methodologies in health care: professional portrayals or personal portals?

Sery, A. & Yupitov, A.

Cultural features of the client in psychological consulting (Russian experience)

 

IX.14    Citizenship education

Room:

Chair: Robert Maier

Name

Paper

Bruno, R.

Workplace activity, unionism and citizenship training CANCELLED

Douglas, A.

Citizenship education and the development of expansive learning cycles through collaborative partnerships CANCELLED

Maitles, H.

Why are we learning this?: What type of citizenship education, What type of citizen?

Putney, L.G. & Falls, J.B.

Formulating citizenship in a diverse classroom: how fifth graders mediated citizenship for incoming students

 

IX.15    Contexts for concept development

Room:

Chair:   Ivanka van Dijk (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Name

Paper

Aalsvoort, J. van

A cultural-historical approach to initial chemical education

Damazio, A.

The development of mathematical concepts in the working relations of the coal mining activity

Sainsbury, E. & Walker, R.

Meaning - making in context : discourse and conceptual change from a sociocultural perspective

Zebian, S.

Influences of cultural artifacts and social practices on number conceptualisation: Experimental and ethnographic approaches to numerical cognition in modernizing and tradition Lebanese small businesses

 

IX.16    Design and use of tertiary artefacts

Room:

Chair: King Beach

Name

Paper

Bai, G. & Hermanson, B.

Externalizing activity theory into information systems design

Kaikkonen, H.

Why making the product did not succeed? Tracing of disturbances during the process of making the product with the help of simulations and interview method

Rogers, J.

Activity theory as an analysis/design tool for implementing technology in the ESOL classroom

Turunen, J., Keskitalo, K. & Partanen, J.

Unexpected events in user-provider dialogue

 

IX.17    Different perspectives on learning

Room:

Chair: Christine Owen (University of Tasmania)

Name

Paper

Bergqvist, K. & Säljö, R.

Learning to see. Students' different orientations towards knowing in modern pedagogy MOVED TO VII.19

Hatlevik, O.E.

Learning strategies and learning activities

Langemeyer, I.

Outlining a research approach to analyze "forms of learning"

Nasir, N., Hand, V., Sommerfield, M. & Lowe, A.

Exploring sociocultural perspectives on race, culture and learning

Pihlaja, J.

The historical types of productional learning

 

IX.18    Founding ideas of activity theory

Room:

Chair: René van der Veer

Name

Paper

Bredkhina, O.

Russian philosopher and psychologist S.L. Rubinstein

Donckers, J.

Psychoanalytic perspectives on Vygotsky and mental handicap

Durmaz, H.

Activity theory and societal - body practices in late capitalism

Tsallis, A. & Rizo, G.

The recovery of Vygotsky and its relations with recent history of the western psychology CANCELLED

Rossler, J.H.

The development of the psyche and the theory of the everyday life CANCELLED

IX.19    Semiotic issues of activity

Room:

Chair: Falk Seeger (Bielefeld University)

Name

Paper

Björck, U.

The construction of narratives in online courses

Bougrimenko, E.

Position and sign in the experimental genetic method

Knuuttila, T.

The toolness of signs, the signness of tools: activity theory meets semiotics

Mata, M.L. de la, Santamaria, A., Ceballos, P. & Zambrano, R.

A semiotic view of text comprehension and recall: the role of social interaction

 

IX.20    Classroom diversity as a resource

Room:

Chair: M. Spotti

Name

Paper

Ivanova, N.

Cultural diversity and identity in education

Kritskaya, O.

The invisible ecology: voices and images of diverse personal epistemologies

Soni, V.

Using classroom diversity as a learning resource

 

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