ISCAR is an international organisation and this is the page for the UK and Ireland regional group.<\/p>\n
Each region has a coordinator who becomes their representative member on the executive committee of ISCAR. The current coordinator is Malcolm Reed who is also the President of ISCAR.<\/p>\n
Due to people moving universities and because we have spent a year moving our website provider and migrating membership and contact information, the UK&I regional has not been particularly active for a couple of years. However, we are now re-making contacts in readiness for the next international congress at Laval University, Quebec City, Canada,\u00a0from 28 August to 1 September 2017.<\/p>\n
The value of being an ISCAR\u00a0member\u00a0for a three year period is that you will support the activity of this intellectually powerful organisation dedicated to exploring\u00a0cultural-historical perspectives in education and social activity. You will also receive a reduction in your subscription fee for the forthcoming congress. As an organisation we are particularly\u00a0dedicated to supporting doctoral researchers, newly appointed academics and our colleagues who need socio-economic support to attend congress.<\/p>\n
Please get involved: ISCAR congress is always a wonderful, friendly and inspiring event!<\/p>\n
Report of UK&I regional group meeting at\u00a0the University of Oxford Department of Education held on <\/strong>June 20-21st\u00a02017<\/strong> (in collaboration with friends and colleagues in the Netherlands).<\/p>\n The 2016 meeting of the UK&I group was held in the University of Oxford and was very generously organised by Kasper Munk. Ian Thompson, also of Oxford, made sure that lunch was held in the\u00a0beautiful surroundings of Lady Margaret Hall and that those attending were treated to fine lunches at very little cost. Malcolm Reed and Martijn van Schaik (ISCAR Hon. Secretary) made sure that there were a large amount of excellent\u00a0journal and monograph papers\u00a0available on Dropbox before the meeting. These papers helped seminar delegates to focus on the seminar themes of agency and identity, particularly as applied in a school (primary and secondary setting) setting, though the discussions often extended beyond this.<\/p>\n Malcom began the substantive part of the meeting with a session on “How do we understand ‘agency’?-How are you using agency in your research? What are the issues of agency to explore?” After some focussing remarks from Malcolm the\u00a0thirty-nine people attending, some from\u00a0as far away as Brazil,\u00a0broke into\u00a0small groups and discussed these issues before putting them onto A3 maps which were then the focus of further discussions.<\/p>\n That afternoon a number of those attending put up posters about their own\u00a0current research and the delegates moved between these posters discussing the\u00a0agentive and identity aspects of each. Then Harry Daniels of Oxford University and editor of the online journal “Learning, Culture and Social Interaction” gave a\u00a0realistic and very useful account of\u00a0how best to approaching publication of CHAT and related research.<\/p>\n At the end of day one Kasper Munk arranged a very pleasant meal in the nearby branch of Pierre Victoire’s where there was even more detailed research discussion!<\/p>\n Day two began with a very detailed and\u00a0inspiring presentation from Harry Daniels on “Agents, agencies and institutions: Bernstein and\u00a0Vygotsky”\u00a0and Harry drew on the work of his former\u00a0PhD supervisor Basil Bernstein and his own work in this field. This was followed by another very good presentation by Ian Thompson and Malcolm Reed on “Ontological issues of agency: escaping dualist assumptions”.<\/p>\n The two days ended with a discussion on how best to structure the next meeting and how that might best help delegates to the 2017 ISCAR congress in Quebec. All in all it was a great two days, which was reflected in the many positive comments of those attending.<\/p>\n Report by: Joe MacDonagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ISCAR is an international organisation and this is the page for the UK and Ireland regional group. Each region has a coordinator who becomes their representative member on the executive committee of ISCAR. The current coordinator is Malcolm Reed who is also the President of ISCAR. Due to people moving universities and because we have … Continue reading UK and Ireland regional group page<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.iscar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.iscar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.iscar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.iscar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.iscar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/old.iscar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"http:\/\/old.iscar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions\/457"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.iscar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.iscar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}