Thursday 31 August, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

8:00 AM

8:00 AM

Registration

Convention Center - Hall

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 9 hours

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Open Discussion of a Shared Problem (OD-SP) - 2. PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITIES

Convention Center - 2000 A

8:30 AM - 9:20 AM | 50 minutes

Open Discussion of a Shared Problem (OD-SP)

9:30 AM

9:30 AM

KEYNOTE Kris Gutiérrez: Social design experiments: Towards equity by design

Convention Center - 2000 B

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour

Keynote speech

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Morning Refreshments

- Foyer 2000 + Hall

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutes

Break

11:00 AM

11:00 AM

PS 23: Researchers’ new roles and cocreation

Convention Center - 205 A

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Paper Session (PS)
3.3 Interventionist methodologies: bridging theory and practice3.7 Changing forms of work

PS 24: Work in the digital era

Convention Center - 205 B

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Paper Session (PS)
3.8 New technologies and new ways of organizing work2.6 Dialogue and the co-construction of knowledge

PS 26: The LOPi model, children's learning and play

Convention Center - 2105

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Paper Session (PS)
3.3 Interventionist methodologies: bridging theory and practice2.3 The social construction of [dis]ability and difference/homogeneity3.6 Tensions, extensions, and new formulations in cultural-historical activity research

PS 27: Vulnerable learners, assessment, and multiple approaches

Convention Center - 2103

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Paper Session (PS)
1.1 Social, cultural, linguistic and educational mediation3.2 Multi-method approaches: Issues, challenges and promising directions

PS 28: Historicity, language, and context

Convention Center - 2104 A

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Paper Session (PS)
2.6 Dialogue and the co-construction of knowledge3.2 Multi-method approaches: Issues, challenges and promising directions3.5 Unit of analysis: historicity, context, and levels of analytic scale

WGRT 23: The individual subject in contemporary CHAT research

Convention Center - 204 B

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
1.5 Other topics related to Theme 1

WGRT 38: CHAR and the development of sociality

Convention Center - 2000 A - Table A

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
3.3 Interventionist methodologies: bridging theory and practice

WGRT 39: Creating collaborative spaces

Convention Center - 2000 A - Table B

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
3.4 Transformative agency3.7 Changing forms of work

WGRT 40: Activity systems: analysis and synthesis

Convention Center - 2000 A - Table C

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
1.5 Other topics related to Theme 1

WGRT 41: CHAT and science education for human development

Convention Center - 2000 A - Table D

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
3.6 Tensions, extensions, and new formulations in cultural-historical activity research3.9 Other topics related to Theme 3

WGRT 42: Temporality and affection in relationships

Convention Center - 2000 A - Table E

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
3.6 Tensions, extensions, and new formulations in cultural-historical activity research3.9 Other topics related to Theme 3

WGRT 45: Building school-community collaboration for learning

Convention Center - 2000 A - Table F

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
3.3 Interventionist methodologies: bridging theory and practice2.2 Identity and professional learning in new and diverse ecologies

IPS 3: School-based development and the researcher's role

Convention Center - 204 A

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Interactive Paper Session (IPS)
3.1 Farther reaches of theoretical and methodological explorations3.4 Transformative agency

PS 50: Tech for the study of father engagement

Convention Center - 2104 B

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

3.1 Farther reaches of theoretical and methodological explorations

PS 51 - Building a collaborative research culture (onsite-online)

Convention Center - 2101

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Paper Session (PS)
1.3 Learning, knowledge and agency2.1 Learning and development in onsite communities and online spaces3.6 Tensions, extensions, and new formulations in cultural-historical activity research

PS 52: Activity theory and assessment

Convention Center - 205 C

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

Paper Session (PS)
3.2 Multi-method approaches: Issues, challenges and promising directions3.6 Tensions, extensions, and new formulations in cultural-historical activity research2.7 Other topics related to Theme 2

12:00 PM

12:00 PM

Midday Meal

- 2000 CD

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Break

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

SYMP 219 - Expanding units of analysis: Steps toward fourth generation activity theory

Convention Center - 2000 B

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 2 hours

Third-generation activity theory has treated activity systems as reasonably well-bounded, although interlocking and networked, structure units. How...
Symposium (Symp)
3.1 Farther reaches of theoretical and methodological explorations

SYMP 261 - Unpacking ‘signs of learning’ in complex social environments: How to desettle neoliberal market driven educational methodologies, epistemologies and recognitions of learning

Convention Center - 205 A

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 2 hours

The congress theme pushes us to engage in deep conversations about challenging issues that expand on current practice and lead to new ideas. In thi...
Symposium (Symp)
3.1 Farther reaches of theoretical and methodological explorations

SYMP 253 - Multiprofessional collaboration supporting individuals and communities

Convention Center - 2103

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 2 hours

In this symposium we discuss a project ‘Multiprofessional collaboration supporting individuals and communities’ that creates knowledge about succes...
Symposium (Symp)
3.3 Interventionist methodologies: bridging theory and practice

SYMP 175 - STEM interactive symposium: challenging traditions in STEM research when crossing the CHAT landscape

Convention Center - 205 B

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 2 hours

The goal of this interactive symposium is to collectively share and compare the way we do research in STEM education so it may further develop. Eac...
Symposium (Symp)
3.2 Multi-method approaches: Issues, challenges and promising directions

SYMP 083 - Perezhivanie and subjectivity: methodological contributions, challenges, and limitations

Convention Center - 204 B

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 2 hours

The recent publication of two special issues dedicated to the discussion of Vygotsky’s perezhivanie highlight both the emerging interest in, and co...
Symposium (Symp)
3.1 Farther reaches of theoretical and methodological explorations

SYMP 292 - Unanchoring activity: Withs as a unit of analysis for tracing distributed communication and action across spatial-temporal scales and socio-material settings

Convention Center - 205 C

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 2 hours

This symposium tackles the problem of tracing distributed communication and action across temporal-spatial scales and socio-material settings. Exte...
Symposium (Symp)
3.5 Unit of analysis: historicity, context, and levels of analytic scale

SYMP 116 - Socio-materiality in learning and development

Convention Center - 204 A

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 2 hours

Generally, biological, psychological and cultural approaches to research theorize socio-material dimensions as “natural” components of human ecosys...
Symposium (Symp)
3.1 Farther reaches of theoretical and methodological explorations

SYMP 216 - Re-inventing parenting in culturally diverse settings: revisiting a community of practice perspective

Convention Center - 2104 B

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 2 hours

This symposium brings together different research projects in which the learning and development of parents are addressed in situations of intense ...
Symposium (Symp)
2.2 Identity and professional learning in new and diverse ecologies

PS 29: Beyond limits in new life contexts

Convention Center - 2105

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour

Paper Session (PS)
3.4 Transformative agency3.2 Multi-method approaches: Issues, challenges and promising directions

WGRT 21: Collaborative problem-solving in math classrooms

Convention Center - 2000 A - Table E

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
2.1 Learning and development in onsite communities and online spaces2.7 Other topics related to Theme 2

WGRT 44: Vygotsky’s unit of verbal analysis

Convention Center - 2104 A

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
3.1 Farther reaches of theoretical and methodological explorations

WGRT 46: Teacher development and the expression of subjectivity in context

Convention Center - 2000 A - Table C

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
2.2 Identity and professional learning in new and diverse ecologies3.6 Tensions, extensions, and new formulations in cultural-historical activity research

WGRT 48: Chat and emerging technologies

Convention Center - 2000 A - Table D

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
3.8 New technologies and new ways of organizing work

WGRT 50: Intervention research and social inclusion

Convention Center - 2000 A - Table B

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
3.3 Interventionist methodologies: bridging theory and practice2.5 Intercultural-cultural communication and new forms of being

IPS 4: Vygotsky, counselling & psychotherapy

Convention Center - 2101

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour

Interactive Paper Session (IPS)
3.3 Interventionist methodologies: bridging theory and practice3.9 Other topics related to Theme 3

2:40 PM

2:40 PM

PS 31: Development of agency

Convention Center - 2105

2:40 PM - 3:30 PM | 50 minutes

Paper Session (PS)
3.4 Transformative agency

PS 32: CHAT and the cultural-historical paradigm: Theory and method

Convention Center - 2104 A

2:40 PM - 3:30 PM | 50 minutes

Paper Session (PS)
3.2 Multi-method approaches: Issues, challenges and promising directions3.9 Other topics related to Theme 3

PS 39: Cultural communities and semiotics

Convention Center - 2101

2:40 PM - 3:30 PM | 50 minutes

Paper Session (PS)
2.1 Learning and development in onsite communities and online spaces2.4 Cross-national explorations of sociocultural research on learning

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Afternoon Refreshments

- Foyer 2000 + Hall

3:30 PM - 3:50 PM | 20 minutes

Break

3:50 PM

3:50 PM

SYMP 176 - Activity theory and the anthropocene

Convention Center - 2000 B

3:50 PM - 5:20 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

The announcement of the Anthropocene – the current epoch of geological time – in which the impact of human activity on the planet represents one of...
Symposium (Symp)
3.4 Transformative agency

SYMP 110 - A child’s shared cultural knowledge: positioning practices of educator, family and community

Convention Center - 2105

3:50 PM - 5:20 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

This study forms part of a larger project ‘Studying babies and toddlers: Cultural worlds and transitory relationships undertaken with ethical appro...
Symposium (Symp)
1.2 Children’s development and childhood

SYMP 247 - Radical creativity, challenging theory, changing identities – Challenging and exploring the boundaries of theory through the concept of identity

Convention Center - 205 C

3:50 PM - 5:20 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

We will address challenges and theoretical transgressions of cultural-historical theory through exploring identity (at a practical level) and possi...
Symposium (Symp)
3.6 Tensions, extensions, and new formulations in cultural-historical activity research

SYMP 100 - Communication for Co-operation: the dynamic of language, communication and cognition within collaborative activity

Convention Center - 204 A

3:50 PM - 5:20 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Marx understood the ‘social’ to mean ‘the cooperation of several individuals, no matter under what conditions, in what manner and to what end’. How...
Symposium (Symp)
2.6 Dialogue and the co-construction of knowledge

PS 34: Vygotsky: applications in science, art, and play

Convention Center - 204 B

3:50 PM - 5:20 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Paper Session (PS)
3.4 Transformative agency2.7 Other topics related to Theme 2

PS 33: Cultural tools, digital technologies, and Change Lab

Convention Center - 205 A

3:50 PM - 5:20 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Paper Session (PS)
3.3 Interventionist methodologies: bridging theory and practice3.8 New technologies and new ways of organizing work3.5 Unit of analysis: historicity, context, and levels of analytic scale

PS 30: Vygotsky: Early and later works

Convention Center - 2104 B

3:50 PM - 4:50 PM | 1 hour

Paper Session (PS)
3.1 Farther reaches of theoretical and methodological explorations3.8 New technologies and new ways of organizing work

PS 36: Activity theory, health, and social behavior

Convention Center - 2104 A

3:50 PM - 5:20 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Paper Session (PS)
3.3 Interventionist methodologies: bridging theory and practice3.9 Other topics related to Theme 3

PS 35: The challenges of acculturating students into academia

Convention Center - 2103

3:50 PM - 5:20 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Paper Session (PS)
3.1 Farther reaches of theoretical and methodological explorations3.3 Interventionist methodologies: bridging theory and practice3.9 Other topics related to Theme 3

WGRT 28: CHAT applications in hazardous contexts

Convention Center - 2000 A - Table D

3:50 PM - 4:50 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
2.6 Dialogue and the co-construction of knowledge

WGRT 47: Mediated knowledge in third spaces

Convention Center - 2000 A - Table C

3:50 PM - 4:50 PM | 1 hour

Working Group Roundtable (WGRT)
3.7 Changing forms of work

IPS 5: Young people with special needs and CHAT

Convention Center - 205 B

3:50 PM - 5:20 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Interactive Paper Session (IPS)
1.3 Learning, knowledge and agency3.3 Interventionist methodologies: bridging theory and practice1.5 Other topics related to Theme 1

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Annual General Meeting

Convention Center - 2000 B

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | 1 hour

ISCAR MEMBERS MEETING Thursday 31st August 2017 17:30—18:30 AGENDA
Annual General Meeting

7:00 PM

7:00 PM

Gala Dinner

Château Laurier (Gala only) - TBA

7:00 PM - 10:30 PM | 3 hours 30 minutes

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