Re: [xmca] AERA 2010: Symposium about Emotions and Symposium about perezhyvanie

[Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

I second Steve's enthusiasm.
For Perezhivanie alone there are enough complicated issues to keep us tied
up
for a goodly period of time!!
mike

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Steve Gabosch <stevegabosch@me.com> wrote:

> Mabel, Ana,
>
> I think these are great topic suggestions and questions.  I believe there
> were 8 papers or so presented at the AERA 2009 symposium on emotions you two
> organized at this last AERA conference.  I attended this symposium and
> really enjoyed it.  Thanks for doing it - and now, for doing two more.
>
> For the authors of these papers from this last symposium that are willing,
> could you make their papers available for xmca'ers, perhaps as file
> attachments?  I have been meaning to ask about this.  I got to read Lois
> Holzman's interesting paper from a hard copy she made available, for
> example, but haven't seen some of the other papers ... and would really like
> to.  And others on xmca might like to see them, too.  Might even generate
> some interesting xmca discussion ...  :-))
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Steve
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> On Jun 24, 2009, at 2:36 AM, Mabel Encinas wrote:
>
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>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>> This is an invitation to participate in two symposia: one about emotions,
>> and one about the specific concept of "perezhyvanie". Ana Marjanovic-Shane
>> will submit this second one, and I will submit the first one.
>>
>> In both symposia, the idea of working about emotions involves two kind of
>> research:
>>
>>
>> Research focusing on the study of emotions
>>
>> Research that involve some analysis/discussion about emotions, rather than
>> only superficially acknowledging them.
>>
>> The challenge in these two symposia is to present what is what CHAT offers
>> for the understanding of emotions, i.e. what is our research contributing to
>> the understanding of emotions?, what are our findings?, and mainly, what are
>> the implications for practice (both in terms of policy making and in terms
>> of the work of practitioners) that make CHAT an important approach to
>> develop? I see this as a collective task, in which many of us are engaged,
>> and despite our differences, we are in the way of constructing a CHAT
>> approach necessary to understand (and ‘do things’ taking into account)
>> emotions, in the context of the educational and social challenges that we
>> face in contemporary societies.
>>
>> As there is a growing group of scholars that have worked about
>> perezhyvanie (or maybe perezhivanije), a concept that is not easy to
>> translate into English, the idea is that this might generate a particular
>> interest in the concept, and its implications to research practices and
>> other kind of practices in education. In this way, this particular symposium
>> will be submitted for people that work on the concept and want to present
>> what it offers to the understanding of emotions.
>>
>> Why we want to submit two symposia?
>> Last year we submitted a ‘big’ symposium about emotions (i.e. a symposium
>> with many presenters), and it can make more sense if we submit two, in order
>> to have two slots to further discuss on these issues. This is why we thought
>> that a second symposium could be submitted on this particular concept of
>> perezhyvanie.
>>
>> I suggest the following questions that we can address in both symposia:
>>
>>
>> How do you understand emotions in CHAT?
>>
>> What is the specificity of CHAT compared to other (or another)
>> approach(es):  psychoanalysis, social and emotional learning –SEL-,
>> emotional intelligence, emotional labour, emotions in contemporary
>> neuroscience, etc.?
>>
>> What kind of methodologies we have developed in CHAT in order to study
>> emotions (audio, video, conversation analysis, etc.)? And how do these
>> methodologies are linked to the theoretical construction of a CHAT approach?
>>
>> How do we study emotions in CHAT to avoid 'dichotomies' such as
>> cognition/emotion, individual/social, etc.?
>>
>> What are the practical implications of the study of emotions in CHAT? This
>> can involve considerations that go from practical implications (for example
>> to practitioners such as teachers or psychotherapists), to political
>> implications.
>>
>> In the second symposia, this question would involve a discussion about the
>> concept of perezhyvanie. Ana foresees that the fourth question might be
>> particularly addressed in it, but all the other questions can make sense for
>> engaging in rich discussions about emotions in this symposium as well.
>>
>> In both symposia, the questions work as a general structure, which will be
>> accommodated according to the people that express interest. You might want
>> to discuss one, two or three of the questions. Please consider that the time
>> is quite tight (possibly 10 to 15 minutes for each person). Depending on
>> what the people that participate choose to discuss, the shape and focus that
>> each of the two symposia will take. We might select to focus in one or some
>> of the questions depending on the presenters’ interests.
>>
>> As this year there was some criticism of the organisation in small groups,
>> for next year we can try to have conventional presentations in a row, and
>> maybe invite more than one discussant of the papers. However, other
>> organisations might be agreed among the participants in each symposium.
>>
>> All these are general outlines but the actual shape of each symposia will
>> be defined depending on the interests of the people presenting.
>>
>> What we need to do?
>>
>>
>> If you are interested, please send an expression of interest as soon as
>> possible, defining in few lines what questions you would be interested in
>> addressing. Please write to Ana (ana@zmajcenter.org) and me (
>> m.encinas@ioe.ac.uk) – preferably please not to xmca, as this just
>> saturates everybody’s inbox.
>>
>> Then, by the 10th of July, please send what is stated by AERA call for
>> proposals:
>>
>> A summary (maximum of 500 words) of your paper/presentation which needs to
>> address “the basic elements of a research or scholarly paper/presentation” (
>> http://aera.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Journals/Educational_Researcher/3804/301-322_05EDR09.pdf
>> ):
>>
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>>
>>
>> -        Objectives or purposes
>>
>> -        Perspective(s) or theoretical framework
>>
>> -        Methods, techniques, or modes of inquiry
>>
>> -        Data sources, evidence, objects or materials
>>
>> -        Results and/or substantiated conclusions or warrants for
>> arguments/point of view
>>
>> -        Scientific or scholarly significance of the study or work.
>> (Theoretical or methodological papers must include information equivalent to
>> element 4.)
>> Also:
>>
>>
>>
>> -        Each presenter must indicate whether the research being conducted
>> for the paper has been reviewed for human research protection and approved
>> by an institutional review board (IRB) or that IRB review is “Not
>> Applicable."
>>
>> -        Each presenter will be asked to indicate his/her willingness to
>> participate in the AERA Online Paper Repository. Participation is
>> encouraged. If the option is selected, the final commentary paper will be
>> placed in the Repository.
>>
>> -        All presenters at accepted symposium, structured poster, working
>> group roundtable, and demonstrate/performance sessions must prepare and
>> upload a paper or commentary paper into the AERA online submission system at
>> least three weeks before the start of the Annual Meeting. Papers or
>> commentary papers are a maximum of 1,000 words. Papers will be available to
>> all participants in the session.
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Mabel
>>
>>
>>
>> Mabel Encinas
>>
>> m.encinas@ioe.ac.uk
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