[Xmca-l] FW: Request from Piaget Society

[Peter Smagorinsky]

From: Carol D Lee [mailto:cdlee@northwestern.edu]

Hi All,

The Piaget Society is sponsoring an innovative conference on Technologies and Human Development.  The conference is being organized by Colette Dauite of CUNY and me.  We are writing to see if you would circulate the attached call on your listserves , networks, and through other venues you think would be interested.

The deadline for submitting proposals is December 15th, 2016.

We have a stellar group of invited keynotes:

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Michael Cole (University of California, San Diego) & Roy Pea (Stanford University) The living hand of the past:
Re-covering the role of technology in human development
Kris Guitierrez (University of California, Berkeley) Las Redes and El Pueblo Mágico: Access equality in trans-pedagogical spaces
Isabela Granic (Radboud University, Nijmegen) Video games that promote emotional resilience in children and youth
Nichole Pinkard (DePaul University, Chicago) The digital youth network: Partnerships for adolescent and community development across time and space


Below is a brief description of the focus of the conference:

Contemporary theories define human development as an interactive process. Some theories emphasize interpersonal interactions; others focus on individual-societal interactions; and others address interactions via flexible technologies. Drawing on all of those traditions, one of the most intriguing theoretical proposals is that symbolic systems—words, toys, digital devices—are technologies. Such technologies are created in culture, mediate human interactions, and transform culture and development. It is in this symbolic sense that social media, apps, interactive games, and other digital tools become meaningful—in process and in consequence.

With such a theoretical foundation to guide research and practice, the invited program for JPS 2017 focuses on the concept “technology,” in particular digital media, their uses, and impacts in human culture and development. Offering an analytic lens that will not become obsolete with the next new widget, this symposium examines symbol systems and their manifestations. As symbol systems, technologies are stable enough for shared understanding, yet amenable to use and transformation by children, adolescents, and adults across cultural contexts and for diverse purposes. Learning and development with games, social media, digital archives, word processors, and more can, thus, be studied as cultural tools in contexts of practice.

We present this generative understanding of technology and human development by scholars with a diverse range of histories, perspectives, and research projects. The conference is more than the invited program, which sets the scene for a wide range of topics, issues, and research questions relevant to cognitive, social, and emotional, and language development.
The organizers enthusiastically invite submissions by established and emerging scholars, policy makers, and practitioners working on projects relevant to any aspect of human development.

Thanks.

Carol

Carol D. Lee, Ph.D
Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy
Northwestern University
2120 Campus Drive
Evanston, ILL 60208


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