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4th Associations Round Table on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 September in Busan, Korea.

The UIA cordially invites you to send representatives to its 4th Associations Round Table on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 September in Busan, Korea.

The UIA Round Table is an opportunity to learn through networking and through practice, to meet other international associations and share experience and knowledge to help you run your organization better. Read more here .
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7th Nordic Conference on Cultural and Activity Research

A Nordic Perspective on the Cultural and the Activity Approach in Theory and Practice

The Nordic countries have a strong theoretical and practice tradition of cultural-historical approaches to investigating and/or intervening human practices and everyday life. These include early childhood learning and play, children’s school life and education, youth life, as well as work life and organization of processes.

The 7th Nordic conference, June 16-18 2016,  provides a cross-disciplinary forum for exchanging ideas, exploring common interests, addressing various theoretical, practice-related, and societal issues, as well as for establishing new possibilities for collaboration among researchers and practitioners who share an interest in cultural-historical approaches.

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Australasian ISCAR/AARE Symposium, December, 2016

Call for papers

Call for proposals

Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Sociocultural Activity Theory Special Interest Group (SIG) conveners  in collaboration with the International Society of Cultural-historical Activity Research (ISCAR) Australia-Asia region invite you to submit a 200 word abstract to:

Australasian ISCAR/AARE SAT Symposium

Friday December 2nd – Saturday December 3rd , 2016, immediately following the AARE conference in Melbourne. Venue: Friday – Deakin University Melbourne Corporate Centre; Saturday – TBA . Cost $100, free for AARE SIG members.

Program Overview

The AARE/ ISCAR Symposium brings experienced researchers, research students and early career researchers together for targeted presentations and workshops to develop our presentations and symposium proposals, journal articles and book chapters and to build research alliances between Sociocultural and Activity Researchers.

Manuscript workshops

Participants will work in themed working groups and develop their own manuscripts for presentation at conferences and publication and receive feedback during the symposium.

Keynotes

Keynotes will be geared to supporting theoretical and practical aspects of presenting and publishing your work: how and where to publish for Sociocultural and Activity Researchers, and ECRs in particular, including a themed book series with Springer and reaching International Cultural and Activity Research audiences.

Day Session 1 (9am-10am) Session 2 (10am-12) Session 3 (1pm-2pm) Session 4 (2pm-4pm)
Friday,

December 02

 Keynote 1: Exploring theoretical approaches Workshops: Roundtable presentations by participants Panel 1: Presenting and publishing: practical tips Workshops: Writing conference presentations: think tank
Saturday, December 03 Keynote 3: Exploring theoretical approaches Workshops: Round-table presentations: feedback to participants Panel 2: Presenting and publishing: writing a paper Workshops: Round-table presentations: feedback and writing retreat

Details

This symposium provides opportunities for collaboration in research and project development and for early career and experienced researchers, and researcher from different disciplines to work together. To enhance collaboration and development, participant numbers will be capped at 25. Submissions are being sought for:

  • Short research paper presentations (10 minutes) which will be subsequently developed in workshops
  • Ideas for new collaborations and research projects and workshops which can be incorporated into the program.

  • Deadlines

    • Submit your 200 word abstract to nikolai.veresov@monash.edu by 1st September, 2016.
    • Notification of acceptance 1st October, 2016
    • Registration by 10th November.

Asia-Pacific Summer School

A five-day retreat is being planned for PhD students and early career researchers to work together with academic mentors to develop their theoretical understandings, writing, and collaboration.

The Summer School will be held from 6-11 December 2018, near Sydney, Australia, immediately following Australian Association for Research in Education conference. There are no registration fees but participants must cover their own costs.

There will be places for 20 PhD students and early career researcher and six professors. Anyone interested should contact John Cripps Clark and Jenny Martin

Contacts:

john.crippsclark@deakin.edu.au

jenny.martin@acu.edu.au

Deadline approaching for 7th Nordic conference

Deadline for the submission for the next Nordic Conference is approaching.

The submission deadline is January 15th 2016

(Registration deadline: May 25th 2016)

The 7th Nordic conference, June 16-18 2016,  provides a cross-disciplinary forum for exchanging ideas, exploring common interests, addressing various theoretical, practice-related, and societal issues, as well as for establishing new possibilities for collaboration among researchers and practitioners who share an interest in cultural-historical approaches.

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Future events in Scandinavia

The next Nordic Conference will be in Trondheim, Norway (18-20 June 2019). The regional ISCAR webpage will be updated with details when they are announced. The theme is Research and practices within and around boundaries, and the conference is arranged by the national activity theory group led by ISCAR Executive member May Britt Postholm.

ISCAR members may also be interested to attend the second UArctic Congress (3-7 September 2018), which is being held by the University of Oulu and University of Helsinki.

Cultural-Historical Approaches to Children’s Development and Childhood

(CHACDOC) ISCAR members from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences invite their colleagues to the next CHACDOC section conference in Bergen, Norway, 22-24 May 2019, themed: Exploration in Early Childhood Education. Confirmed speakers include Marilyn Fleer, Lasse Lipponnen, and Elin Eriksen Ødegaard. For information see the website, or contact hvs@hvl.no The CHACDOC-Bergen 2019 Working Committee are: Mariane Hedegaard, Hanne Værum Sørensen, Åsta Birkeland, Aihua Hu and Elin Eriksen Ødegaard.

Call for special issue Mind Culture and Activity

Guest editors Jrene Rahm and Carol Brandt are soliciting proposals for papers for a special issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal (http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Journal/) addressing the following theme:

Reimagining Science Education in Neoliberal Global Contexts: Sociocultural Accounts of Science Learning in Underserved Communities.

The call for papers is available at the following URL:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ed/hmca_cfp2015/

Note that extended abstracts of 500 to 700 words, excluding references, must be submitted by May 27, 2015 to jrene.rahm[at]umontreal.ca.

Selected authors will be notified by June 15, 2015.

Submissions are due August 15, 2015. Final length of papers will depend on the number of abstracts accepted, and will be between 6,000 to 8,000 words.
We are anticipating a publication date in early 2016.

If you have any question, please contact jrene.rahm[at]umontreal.ca