AARE/ISCAR symposium 2^nd and 3^rd December 2016

Venue: ACU University, Melbourne

Free participation was enabled by sponsorship from AARE Melbourne conference.

The AARE/ ISCAR/IRECE Symposium bought experienced researchers, research students and early career researchers together for targeted presentations and workshops to develop our presentations and symposium proposals for ISCAR 2017 Congress in Canada, journal articles and book chapters and to build research alliances between Sociocultural and Activity Researchers.

25 participants from 6 countries worked in themed working groups and in some cases started to develop their own manuscripts for presentation at conferences and publication. Feedback from experienced and ECR supported this development.

Keynotes were geared to supporting theoretical and practical aspects of presenting and publishing your work: how and where to publish for Sociocultural and Activity Researchers, and early career researchers in particular, including a themed book series with Springer Publishers and reaching International Cultural and Activity Research audiences. Prof Marilyn Fleer examined play and child development as a collective problem in how ipad’s created new cultural contexts. She introduced us to documenting investigative play, new imaginations and metacognitive language associated with ipad technologies. Prof Alex Kostogriz, Head of Education at ACU, provided a preliminary survey talk ‘researching the everyday’ in teacher education. He put a challenge to the prosaic of everyday language in professional teacher learning in relation to literacy and tensions between the ‘everyday’ and the expectations of an increasingly commodified and dehumanised schooling system.

Workshops supporting writing and journal projects were well received. Professor Peter Renshaw and Associate Professor Nikolay Veresov presented a lively and informative publishing workshop. This was valued by experienced as well as emerging researchers to show the importance of planning and thinking ahead.

Ongoing support for each themed element of the collaboration is being supported by an online interactive website space created using SLACK and funds from AARE.

Outcomes include

1. Five submissions of abstracts to ISCAR 2017 Congress – 4 for main congress, and 1 for PhD Day pre-congress day.
2. One book proposal for Springer Publisher is developed.
3. PhD group is created for those PhD students who are interested in sociocultural/cultural-historical theoretical framework. At the symposium, the PhD students realised that many of them had supervisors at their various institutions that did not have expertise in cultural historical activity theory. Many of these students expressed immense gratitude for the opportunity the symposium provided to meet other scholars using CHAT and the reported feeling that they had found their ‘home’. These students have arranged to keep in touch to read each other’s’ draft chapters.
4. One book proposal on the symposium in a process of preparation
5. One special issue of journal is in preparation. A proposal for a special issue to AER was planned at the symposium. Call for expression of interest will be circulated to the AARE SIG membership. Internal peer review of submissions will be conducted via the Slack platform. The special issue will be an outcome of the symposium on the 5 year anniversary of the first special issue in AER by SIG membership. (John/Jenny/Gwen). March
6. One themed special issue possible intercultural and transnational education – end of 2017. Gwen

We are most grateful for the support of AARE in providing some funding for this event, ACU for providing the Venue and the presenters who shared their projects and ideas.

Gwen Gilmore

Nikolai Veresov

 

ISCAR/AARE symposium

Melbourne, 2-3 December 2016

Program

Place: Australian Catholic University.

81-89 Victoria Parade,

Modular Building,

Rooms 6, 7 and 8

Day 1, Friday, December 2

Session 1, 9am-10am

1	9-9.10am	Opening	Nikolai Veresov, Gwen Gilmore, John Cripps Clark Jenny Martin
2	9.10-10am	Keynote lecture 1: Exploring cultural-historical theoretical approaches to early childhood education and research	Professor Marilyn Fleer

Session 2: 10am-12noon – parallel workshops 1 and 2: Presentations by participants

Worksop  1: 10am-12noon

Chair: Gwen Gilmore

1	10-10.20	A Case Study of Distributed Leadership	Matthew Glen (Australia)
2	10.20-10.40	Internationalisation of higher education curriculum: a case study in Vietnam	Nhi Luong (Vietnam/Australasia)
3	10.40-11.00	Asynchronous symbolic mediation in Masters of Education teacher education. So what do the tools do for student learning? Focused online Discussions (FOLD) in Higher Education	Gwen Gilmore (Australia) Irina Verenikina
	11.00-11.20	Coffee break
4	11.20-11.40	The Aftermath – Following up on a Change Laboratory Intervention	Katrin Riisla (Finland)
5	11.40-12.00	Practical use of Third Stage Activity Theory as a research tool.	Stuart Hawken (Australia)

Workshop 2: 10am-12noon

Chair: John Cripps Clark

1	10-10.20	The ‘D’ Is for Development: Beyond Pedagogical Interpretations of Vygotsky’s ZPD	David Kellogg (Korea/Australia)
2	10.20-10.40	Rethinking Assessments; creating a new tool using the zone of proximal development within a cultural-historical framework.	Victoria Minson (Australia)
3	10.40-11.00	Transnational education and activity theory: An exploration of Chinese students’ Internet-assisted learning experience in China-Australia “2+2” programs	Kun Dai (Australia)
	11.00-11.20	Coffee break
4	11.20-11.40	Transforming research on motivation	Judy MacCallum (Australia)
5	11.40-12.00	Mother-child collective play at home context: an analysis from a cultural historical theoretical perspective	Anamika Devi, Marilyn Fleer and Liang Li (Australia)
	12noon – 1pm	lunch break

Session 3. Panel session, 1pm – 2pm

Chair Peter Renshaw

1

1-2pm

Presenting and publishing: practical tips in writing an abstract to the conference

Nikolai Veresov, Marilyn Fleer

Session 4: Workshops, 2-4pm

1	2-3.30	Writing conference abstracts/presentations/symposia: Guided writing	All participants who are interested to submit to ISCAR 23017 Quebec Congress
2	3.30-4pm	Coffee break and reporting back

Day 2, Saturday, December 3

Session 5, 9am-10am

1	9-9.10am	Day1 debrief	Nikolai Veresov, Gwen Gilmore, John Cripps Clark Jenny Martin
2	9.10-10am	Keynote lecture 2: The implications of CHAT for research into teacher education and teachers’ work	Professor Alex Kostogriz

Session 6: 10am-12noon – parallel workshops 3 and 4: Presentations by participants: feedback to participants

Workshop 3, 10am-12noon

Chair: Jenny Martin

1	10-10.20	The wicked problem of responsive research design: Shifting early career primary teacher professional learning and dialogues about literacy	Veronica Gardiner (Australia)
2	10.20-10.40	EFL teachers’ perception of computer-based matriculation oral language test reform	Li Liang (China)
3	10.40-11.00	Developing theoretical thinking  regarding culture in the Spanish classroom as a Second Language	Maria del Mar Calero Guerrero (Thailand)
	11.00-11.20	Coffee break
4	11.20-11.40	Hasan’s Complaint, Vygotsky’s Crisis, and the ‘Question’ Question: When and how does a one-year-old answer instead of repeating?	David Kellogg (Corea/Australia)
5	11.40-12.00	Ethics of care in science: enacting science curriculum that responds to the local needs of low socioeconomic communities	Jenny Martin (Australia)

Workshop 4, 10am-12noon

Chair: Nikolai Veresov

1	10-10.20	Cultivating sophisticated evaluation of knowledge	John Cripps Clark (Australia)
2	10.20-10.40	Preservice teachers’ appropriation of pedagogical tools during the EAL practicum in Australia	Minh Hue Nguyen (Australia)
3	10.40-11.00	Enhancing Ghanaian kindergarten teachers’ understanding and implementation of indigenous play pedagogy through a professional development programme	Felicia Agbagbla (South Africa)
	11.00-11.20	Coffee break
4	11.20-11.40	A trialogical approach: Toddlers’ cultural worlds and transitory relationships	Liang Li, Gloria Quinones and Avis Ridgway (Australia)
5	11.40-12.00	Discussion

12noon – 1pm – lunch break

Session 7. Panel session, 1pm – 2pm

Chair Peter Renshaw

1

1-2pm

Presenting and publishing: writing a paper

Nikolai Veresov, Peter Renshaw

Session 4: Workshops, 2-4pm

1	2-3.30	Writing a paper/special issue/book proposal: think tank	All participants who are interested to write a paper/special issue/book proposal
2	3.30 – 4	Coffee break and reporting back

4pm-4.30pm – Closing session

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