Invited CHACDOC Symposium 2007
Organised by Professor Mariane Hedegaard, Copenhagen University & Professor Marilyn Fleer, Monash University, Melbourne
On the 24th -26th of August 2007 the CHACDOC (Cultural-historical approaches to children’s development and childhood) section of ISCAR had their first meeting in Denmark at the LO Hojskolen (a very beautiful location) to discuss cultural-historical approaches to children’s development and childhood. 22 delegates from, Australia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Greece, UK, USA, South Africa, and Germany participated.
The purpose of the section meeting was to create a forum for researchers who are interested using activity theory and the cultural-historical research approach as a way to unite developmental psychology and childhood reseach in their reseach about children. Developmental psychology has often been characterised historically as the study of 'the general child', with a focus on developing a model that can be used to evaluate individual children and their changing relation to society as they grow up. Childhood studies have focused on the study of children anchored in historical time and settings; such approaches are more commonly found within anthropological and sociological traditions, especially those that focus on situated and localised practice with children. Cultural-historical approaches seek to unite the general principles in relation to historical time and place. The program that was generated to discuss these principles follows.
Symposium Program
Friday 24th of August 2007- 1.30-2.00 Arrival
Time |
Presenter Name(s) |
Title of Paper |
2.00-2.40 Invited |
Mariane Hedegaard |
A wholeness approach to developmental psychology and childhood studies |
2.50-3.30 Invited |
Anne Stetsenko |
Development and learning as activist projects: Learning from and expanding Vygotsky's approach |
3.30- 4.00 |
Discussions |
|
4.00-4.15 |
Tea-Coffee break |
|
4.15 -5.15 Open: Development –Childhood and defectology |
Karin Junefelt
Louise Bottcher
|
Was Vygotsky right about writing?
The power of motives: the interaction between biological constraints and activity in the development of children |
5.15 - 6.00 |
Discussions |
|
7.00- |
Dinner and networking |
|
Saturday 25.9.07
9.00-9.40 Invited |
Marilyn Fleer, with Gloria Quinones and Avis Ridgway |
The social situation of development - an institutional perspective |
9.50-10.30 Invited |
Anne Edwards |
Participatory approach to developing resilience in childhood: How CHAT helps |
10.30-11.00 |
Discussion |
|
11.00-11.15 |
Tea-Coffee break
|
|
11.15-11.45 Development & Childhood |
Charlotte Hojholt
|
Development of participation on social practice
|
11.45-12.15 |
Discussion |
|
12.30-2.30 |
Lunch and free time |
|
2.30-3.00 Open Development & Childhood |
Michalis Kontopodis
|
Processing time and unlimiting human development
|
|
|
|
3.00-3.30 |
Discussion |
|
3.30-4.15 |
Tea-Coffee break |
|
4.15-5.15
Transitions |
Niina Rutanen
Maritta Hannikainen
|
Microanalysis of child-child-preschool-researcher interactions Creating togetherness and building a preschool community of learners
|
5.15-5.45 |
Discussions |
|
7.00- |
Dinner and networking |
|
Sunday 26.8.07
9.00-10.00 Open: Pedagogy |
Anna Chronaki
Joanne Hardman |
An entry into the learning identifies of Roma children: Maths words in their own language Researching pedagogy: AT approach
|
10.00-10.30 |
Discussion |
|
10.30-10.45
|
Tea-Coffee break |
|
10.45-12.00 |
CHADDOC |
Future meetings/arrangements |
The program at the section meeting allowed for rich discussions. On the last day of the meeting the group decided that the place and location of the next meeting should be connected to the ISCAR conference in San Diego 2008. The meeting will be held the day prior to the commencement of the ISCAR conference. The theme of the meeting will the theoretical and empirical motive and values in children’s development, and also how to confront the ethical aspect of this problem area in practice.
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