AERA CHAT Program etc

Pedro Portes (prport01 who-is-at ulkyvm.louisville.edu)
Mon, 05 Jan 1998 09:45:17 -0500

>Happy new Year!
>The following sessions are planned for AERA this Spring in San Diego. We
(Our SIG) were able to include most of the proposals received which as you
will see, appear very promising. We were able to "co-opt" some extra space
by sheer good fortune. BUT we do need to ask all who can, to join us in
the CHAT SIG in the next few months so we can keep this mini annual
conference going.

In its 3rd year now, the Cult-Hist Research SIG is serving as an annual
meeting mechanism of sorts for many of us.

>Our present goal is to double our membership next year from 120 to 240
members, which requires AERA membership fees of 45.00 a year plus our SIG
fee of $5.00 per year. This will allow us a good program next year of more
than 2 sessions which is our allotment presently.
We need volunteers to work on membership, and perhaps an electronic or hard
copy newsletter.
>
For those unfamiliar with all of these acronyms and this event, AERA =
American Educational Research Association, which meets yearly. It has
divisions and special interest groups that organize programs in various
areas. Our Special Interest Group (SIG) is the cultural-historical SIG, #
29. It allows us to meet from time to time in the U.S.. The idea behind
this group is that it provides a forum along with XMCA (which serves as the
newsletter from time to time) and MCA. The SIG has members who are not in
XMCA. But most of its members read this I think.
Judith Diamondstone (Treasurer) and Carol Panofsky (Vice President) can be
contacted for membership information etc. Vera John Steiner is the current
president of the group.
>>The 6 sessions for next Spring's AERA CHAT SIG are as follows;
>1.
>Session Title
>CULTURAL HISTORICAL SIG INVITED ADDRESS AND Business Meeting;
>Reflecting on the (Past, Present) Future of CHAT
>
>Chair
>VERA JOHN STEINER
>Participants; Kris Gutierrez, Elvira S. Lima and Yrjo Engestrom
>
>Discussant/Animator; Mike Cole
>

>
>Time Hotel Room Floor
>6:15-8:15 Convention Center 14B Mezzanie
>
>Descriptors: Activity Theory, Socio-cultural Research,
Post-Vygotskyan Perspectives
>
>Sponsor: C-H Research SIG
>Session # 43.32 Day-Thursday
>
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2.
>Session Title: Current Applications of Cultural Historical
Theory
>
>Chair: Esteban Diaz, CSU, San Bernandino
>
>Participants: Hybrid Construction Zones: Making Mind, School &
Courtyard, Kevin Leander, University of Illinois
>
Scaffolded Writing: Application of Vygotsky's Methodology to the
STudy of Emergent Writing. Elena Bodrova, Metropolitan State College
of Denver

Creating a Knowledge-Building Community,
Karen Hume, Gordon Wells, OISE

Appropriation Doesn't Just Happen: "Hidden Dynamics in Adult-Child
Interaction.
Carol Panofsky, Rhode Island College

Alternative Cognitive Assessment of Culturally
& Linguistically Diverse Students.
Sybil Kline, UC, Santa Cruz
>
>
>Time Hotel Room Floor
8:15-10:15 Conv. Ctr. 15A Mezzanine
>
>Descriptors: Social Context, Writing / Scaffolding,
Language Process
>
>Sponsor: Cultural-Historical Research SIG/C
>
>Session # 9.69 Day-Tuesday
>
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3.
>Session Title: Ethical Dilemmas in "Culturing the Children": Exploring
the Consequences of Designing Social Futures Through Education
>
>Organizer: Peter Smagorinsky, University of Oklahoma
>
>Participants: Katheryn Au & Alice Kawakami,
University of Hawaii;
Pedro R. Portes,
University of Louisville;
Mike Cole, UC-San Diego
>
>Discussant: Vera John Steiner, University of New Mexico
>
>Time Hotel Room Floor
4:05-6:05 Conv. Ctr. 15A Mezzanine
>
>
>Descriptors: Ethics, Literacy Interventions, Cultural Process
>
>Sponsor: Cultural-Historical Research SIG/C

>Session # 17.53 Day-Tuesday
>
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4.
>Session Title: Advances in Socio-Cultural Research
>
>TABLE: Societal Development & Scientific Concept Formation,
Hsueh, Helen Davis, Harvard University

Integrating Activity Theory & Systemic-Functional Linguistics in
Composition Studies, Judy Diamondstone,
Rutgers University

Essentialism & Social Consturction of Race, Ram Mahalingam,
University of Pittsburgh

Teachers' & Learners' Voices About Educational Reform in Namibia: A
Cultural-Historical Perspective, Sven Anersson, Linkoping University,
Sweden
>
Saito, Shikuzo & King Beach Michigan State
A paper on cultural change, sociogenesis to be
provided in the next post.
>
>
>
>Time Hotel Room Floor
>3:05-3:45 Marriott Marina E South Tower
Level 3
>
>Descriptors: Literacy Cognitive Process, Vygostsky, Social Context
>
>Sponsor: Cultural-Historical Research SIG/C

>
>Session # 4.06 DAY- Monday
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>5.
>Session Title: Emotions and Educational Inquiry
>
>Chair: Deborah Hicks, University of Delaware
>
>Participants: Adolescent Literature and the Education of Outlaw
Emotions. James Garrison

Emotional Experience & Narrative Representation.
Deborah Hicks, University of Delaware

Emotions & Literature in Educational Writing. Timothy Lensmire,
Washington University
>
>Discussant: Madeleine Grumet, CUNY
>
>Time Hotel Room Floor
>2:15-3:45 Conv. Ctr. 14A Mezzanine
>
>Descriptors: Literature, Student knowledge, Philosophy
>
>Sponsor: Cultural-Historical Research Symposium SIG
SIG / Writing; Division G
>
>Session: # 39.54 Day: Thursday
>
>
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A 6th session has also been allowed organized by Gary Price, UW-Madison titled
Researching, Constructing and measuring the ZPD

The Diagnostic Correctional and developmental Meaning of the ZPD.
Vitaly Rubstov, Russian Academy of Education

ZPD Tango Gary Price, Y. S. Jang UW-Madison

The Role of Chioldren's Misconceptions in the Construction of a ZPD
Arkady Margolis, Russian Academy

Ninth Grade Reading: Thinking aloud & Sticking the Landing" C. Greenleaf,
R. Schoenback, West Ed. San Francisco, Peg Griffin

The Influence of Cultural Context or DIF
Allan Cohen & R. Abarra, UW Madison

Discussant
Peg Griffin, National Academy of Sciences

Wed 12:25-1;55 Session # 25.33 Hyatt, Regency E 4th Floor

AERA sponsored with the Russian Academy od Education.
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There are various ways to help this group maintain itself in the subsequent
years.
You may join the SIG if you are an AERA member, or
You may join AERA and then the SIG
If you already belong, sponsor another AERA member who is not in the SIG
yet by paying $5.00

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P. R. Portes
Professor
Educational & Counseling
Psychology Dept. 310
University of Louisville
KY 40292
Fax- 502-852-0629
Of. Tel. 502-852-0630