SCHEDULE
psmagorinsky who-is-at uoknor.edu
Mon, 12 Feb 96 11:27:56 -0600
I've had a request to post the conference schedule, so here it is.
Apologies to Vera John-Steiner and Jim Wertsch, who changed the titles of
their talks, only to have me lose them in the great shuffle. Could you
please re-post your new titles? Thanks.
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> A VYGOTSKY CENTENNIAL:
> VYGOTSKIAN PERSPECTIVES ON LITERACY RESEARCH
> February 23-25, 1996
> Bismarck Hotel, Chicago
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> CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
> Friday Evening (Feb. 23)
>5:30-7:30 Registration
>7:30-7:45 Carol Lee and Peter Smagorinsky (chairs)--Greeting
>7:45-8:45 Opening Speaker: Vera John-Steiner, U. of New Mexico,
> "Literacy and the Languages of the Mind"
>8:45-9:15 Breakout Groups
>9:15-10:30 Cocktails
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> Saturday (Feb. 24)
>8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast
>8:30-9:30 Arnetha Ball, U. of Michigan, "Moving Beyond the
> Concept of Internalization: Preservice Teachers'
> Perspectives on Literacy in Urban Schools"
>9:30-9:45 Break
>9:45-10:45 Luis Moll, U. of Arizona, "Inspired by Vygotsky:
> Ethnographic Experiments in Education"
>10:45-11:45 Roundtable Discussions
>11:45-1:30 Lunch
>1:30-2:30 Anne Haas Dyson, UC-Berkeley, "Linking Writing and
> Community Development through the Children's Forum"
>2:30-3:15 Panel Discussion
>3:15-3:30 Break
>3:30-4:30 Judith Green, Richard Duran, & LeAnn Putney, UC-Santa
> Barbara, "What Counts as Literate Actions in a Bilingual
> Classroom?"
>4:30-6:30 Discussion/Cocktails
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> Sunday (Feb. 25)
>8:30-9:00 Breakfast
>9:00-10:00 Roundtable Discussions
>10:00-11:00 Gordon Wells, Ontario Institute for Studies in
> Education, "Making Meaning with Text: A Genetic Approach to
> the Mediating Roles of Writing in Activity"
>11:00-11:15 Break
>11:15-12:15 Kris Gutierrez, UCLA, "Literacy Learning as Changing
> Social Practice"
>12:15-1:30 Lunch
>1:30-2:30 James Wertsch, Washington U., "The Idea of a Telos in
> Literacy Studies"
>2:30-3:15 Plenary Session: Galina Zuckerman, Vera John-Steiner, Arnetha
Ball, Luis Moll, Anne Haas Dyson, Judith Green, LeAnn Putney,
Richard Duran, Gordon Wells, Kris Gutierrez, James Wertsch, and
audience members
>3:13-3:30 Closing (Carol Lee and Peter Smagorinsky)
>3:30-4:30 Research Assembly Business Meeting
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> Roundtable Discussion Leaders
> (Each roundtable will be presented twice)
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>Deborah P. Berrill, Queen's University (Ontario), Sara Ann Beach
> & Janet Young, U. of Oklahoma, "Penpals as mentors:
> Children's appropriations of forms"
>Antonia Candela & Elsie Rockwell, Departamiento de
> Investigaciones Educativas, Mexico; Elvira Souza Lima,
> Cepaos, Brazil; Marcelo Guimaraes Lima, University of
> Illinois; Eleine Shepel, Eureka University, Russia;
> Catherine Emihovich, SUNY-Buffalo; Amelia Alvarez & Pablo
> del Rio, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain; Judith Green, UCSB
> (discussant), "Contributions of cultural-historical theory
> to literacy research: An international perspective"
>Rose Casement, Brewer (ME) Middle School & Paula Moore, U. of
> Maine, "Vygotskian concepts: Application to literacy
> instruction for students with special needs"
>Beverly E. Cox & Zhihui Fang, Purdue U., "Emergent metacognition:
> A Vygotskian perspective"
>Colette Daiute, CUNY, "The role of subjectivity in a
> sociocultural theory of literacy"
>Francine Falk-Ross, U. of Illinois-Chicago, "Guiding language
> participation in classroom discourse: Strategies for
> children with language difficulties"
>Cynthia Brock, Carole Sue Englert, Susan Florio-Ruane, James
> Gavelek, & Taffy Raphael, Michigan State U., and Kathy
> Highfield, Holly, MI Elementary School, "Reimagining teacher
> learning about literacy from a Vygotskian perspective"
>Roxanne Henkin, National-Louis U. "Who is invited to share? The
> role of gender and status in first grade literacy
> development"
>Olli Kuure, U. of Oulu (Finland), "Literacy in a second language
> among developmentally different types of bilinguals"
>Genevieve Manset, SUNY-Geneseo, & Michael Gerber, UC-Santa
> Barbara, "Vygotskian perspectives on early writing
> development: Implications for students with learning
> disabilities"
>H. James McLaughlin & JoBeth Allen, U. of Georgia, "Action
> research collaborations as zones of proximal development"
>Suzanne M. Miller, SUNY-Buffalo, "Open-forum text discussion as a
> zone of proximal development: Shaping which habits of mind?"
>Christine C. Pappas, Liliana Barro Zecker, & Sonia White Soltero,
> U. of Illinois-Chicago, "Relating Latino kindergarten
> students' funds of knowledge to the school literacy
> curriculum: Struggles in scaffolding"
>David R. Russell, Iowa State U., "Rethinking genre: An activity
> theory analysis"
>Vicki Zack, St. George's School (Montreal), "Appropriating
> mathematical discourse: Fifth graders make connections
> between invention and convention"
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Peter Smagorinsky
University of Oklahoma
College of Education
Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum
820 Van Vleet Oval
Norman, OK 73019-0260
(405)325-3533
fax: (405)325-4061
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