Month: May 2015

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

Welcome by the webmaster

Welcome to the brand new ISCAR website! We have chosen WordPress as the content management system, because it is open source, has a large user and support community, many of you might be familiar with it and has the functions we need now (and maybe in the future). Features of WordPress are, among many more:

  • easy editing posts and pages;
  • easy acces (in several levels) for authors/editors;
  • integration with social media;
  • integration with member database;
  • integration with newsletter mailings.

The new website has been set up, as you can see, but is far from finished, if ever. We have moved the most important information and set up the basic structure. What we need now is a webteam to further develop and ‘fill’ the website. If you are interested to help, please send an email to webmaster[at]iscar.org. WordPress knowledge is not a prerequisite. In the future regional or thematic sections can have their own subsite. Local organizers/section coordinators who like to try this can also sent an email.
We hope you all like the new look and possibilities of the website, have a look around! Suggestions or comments can also be send to webmaster[at]iscar.org.

Connect with Research gate

Research gate

What is Research gate?

From the platforms website

[Their] mission is to connect researchers and make it easy for them to share and access scientific output, knowledge, and expertise. On ResearchGate they find what they need to advance their research.

Some of the CH(A)T academics are on Research gate. For finding them you can follow for example the ‘topics’: Sociocultural Theory of Learning; Activity Theory. Also you can search and follow people.

Connect with Academia.edu

Academia

What is Academia?

From the platforms website:

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company’s mission is to accelerate the world’s research.

Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. 21,038,187 academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 5,676,474 papers and 1,537,346 research interests. Academia.edu attracts over 36 million unique visitors a month.

Some of the CH(A)T academics are on Academia. Finding related academics you can follow for example the ‘research interests’: Cultural Historical Activity Theory; Activity Theory; Vygotsky; Cultural-historical theory. Also you can search for people.