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ISCAR 2021 – 6th International Congress

CULTURAL-HISTORICAL ACTIVITY RESEARCH IN CRISES CONTEXTS: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

The Local Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the 6th ISCAR International Congress, to be held in the city of Natal, state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The Congress will take place from August 24th to 29th , 2020, in the campus of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN).

For the first time in its history, the Congress will be held in Latin America. Previous meetings, attended by Brazilians representatives, took place in Seville (2005), San Diego (2008), Rome (2011), Sydney (2014) and Quebec (2017). We now receive in Brazil our colleagues from all other participant countries with great enthusiasm.

The sunny city of Natal invites everyone together to meet and share an unforgettable event in 2020! We invite all colleagues to reflect on scenarios, issues, methodologies, practices that challenge us in crisis contexts, to produce knowledge-based upon the legacy of Vygotsky, Leontiev, and Luria.

Website: https://iscar2020ufrn.com.br/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iscar2020.2021

Keynote Speakers

The Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, RN, Brazil)

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 [email protected] The CHACDOC-Bergen 2019 Working Committee are: Mariane Hedegaard, Hanne Værum Sørensen, Åsta Birkeland, Aihua Hu and Elin Eriksen Ødegaard.

7e Séminaire international Vygotski

Première annonce Septième Séminaire internationale Vygotski Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que le septième séminaire international Vygotski se tiendra du 20 – 22 juin 2018 à l’Université de Genève Nous l’organisons sous le titre général Vygotski en débat Il aura pour but de déterminer collectivement si en et quoi les nouvelles traductions de textes de Vygotsky renouvellent la lecture et l’interprétation de ses travaux, de discuter de manière critique des contributions récentes concernant son œuvre et de rendre hommage à Jérôme Bruner, décédé récemment, le premier à avoir fait traduire Pensée et langage en anglais et interprète et continuateur de l’œuvre vygotskienne. Nous organisons ce séminaire comme un séminaire, à savoir notamment sous forme de lectures croisées de nouveaux textes traduits en français de et d’ouvrages récents concernant Vygotski ainsi que de certaines contributions de Jérôme Bruner. Un appel d’offres ciblé sera également lancé. Trois axes ont provisoirement été définis : 1. Développement du concept de développement : de Histoire du développement des fonctions psychiques supérieures aux Cours de pédologiques et Problème de l’âge 2. Vygotski, Marx, Spinoza et les autres : débats autour de publications récentes 3. Hommage à Jérôme Bruner, lecteur de Vygotski (et de Piaget…) Le comité d’organisation et le comité scientifiques sont en voie de constitution. Des informations plus précises seront données sous

http://www.unige.ch/SIV2018

d’ici la fin du mois d’août. Pour le comité d’organisation provisoire Christiane Moro et Bernard Schneuwly

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Agenda for general members meeting during congress

ISCAR MEMBERS MEETING 

Thursday 31st August 2017

17:30—18:30

AGENDA

Welcome and open meeting (Malcolm)

1 Report of the Executive Committee on the activities of the Association (Malcolm & Martijn)

2 Financial report (Therese)

  • current financial situation up to but not including Congress

  • projection of possible Congress costs and effect on ISCAR finances

  • estimated budgets for the years up to and including the year of the next congress

3 Announcement of venue for next ISCAR Congress 2020 (Malcolm)

4 Announcement and introduction of new executive committee for 2017-2020 term (Malcolm)

5 Open space for members

6 Next Members’ Meeting (Malcolm)

Close of meeting

ISCAR/AARE Australasian symposium, Melbourne, Australia, 2nd and 3rd December 2016

AARE/ISCAR symposium 2nd and 3rd 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

 

LURIAN APPROACH IN INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The Fifth International Luria Memorial Congress.

The congress will be held on 13-16 October 2017 in Yekaterinburg, capital of Ural.

The congress will include plenary and thematic sessions (oral and poster presentations), round table discussions and evening lectures of the leading specialists in psychology and neuroscience from Russia and other countries. A competition will be organized between the papers of students, postgraduate students (Ph.D. fellows) and young researchers (under 33 years old). Continue reading LURIAN APPROACH IN INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The program of ISCAR/AARE Autralasian Symposium, 2-3 December

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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Scholarships for Fifth ISCAR Congress Quebec City, Canada 2017

We are pleased to announce that we intend to award up to 4 scholarships to assist doctoral researchers, early career academics and non- or low-salaried researchers to attend ISCAR 2017. Scholarships are offered to support attendance at Congress but will not support subsistence expenses.
Please note that scholarships will only be available to people who are not able to secure funding* from their university or workplace and who have a paper, symposium, round table, or PhD conference presentation acceptable to the conference organisers.  Continue reading Scholarships for Fifth ISCAR Congress Quebec City, Canada 2017

Cultural Historical Activity Research Symposium, 2-3 December, 2016, Melbourne, Australia: second call for papers

Cultural Historical Activity Research Symposium

Second call for papers

Transforming your research into publication, presentation, grants and collaboration.

2nd & 3rd December, 2016

Australasian – ISCAR – AARE – IRECE

Venue: Australian Catholic University.

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 International Research in Early Childhood Education (IRECE) Conference invite you to submit a 200 word abstract to either [email protected] or [email protected] . Your abstract may be the same as the AARE abstract or IRECE abstract for working up into a paper for ISCAR Congress (Quebec 2017), publication or grant proposal.

Friday December 2nd – Saturday December 3rd,, 2016, immediately following the AARE conference in Melbourne. Venue: Australian Catholic University, Modular Buildings, 81-89 Victoria Pde., Melbourne: Building 15 (see linked map) http://www.acu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/716504/Melbourne_Campus_Amenity_Map.pdf

This FREE event is funded by AARE for the Sociocultural and Activity Theory SIG to support growth in research practices for ERC and mid-career researchers and HDR students.

Program Overview:

The ISCAR/AARE/IRECE Symposium brings 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.

Submissions of individual papers/symposium for ISCAR 2017 Congress created and developed during this event will obtain a special extension of the submission deadline.

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:

Prof Marilyn Fleer

Exploring cultural-historical theoretical approaches to early childhood education and research

 Workshops: Roundtable presentations by participants

 

 Panel 1: Presenting and publishing: practical tips in writing an abstract to the conference. Workshops:

Writing conference presentations: think tank
Saturday, December 03 Keynote 2:

Prof Alex Kostogriz

The implications of CHAT for research into teacher education and teachers’ work.

 Workshops:

Round-table presentations: feedback to participants

 Panel 2:

(Peter Renshaw (TBC) /Nikolai Veresov

Presenting and publishing: writing a paper

 Workshops:

writing paper 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. Publish in the AARE journal, IRECE
  • Workshop papers and symposium ideas for submission to ISCAR (5th International Congress August 28th – September 1st 2017) immediately following this event. (Special agreed extension deadline for ISCAR – 2017 Congress)
  • Ideas for new collaborations and research projects and workshops which can be incorporated into the program.

Deadlines

Catering for registration by 10th November. Note there is no cost related to registration (Registration catering purposes only). Registration to Jenny Martin [email protected]