Hi Pedro,
Thanks for the briefing. Seems like a lot of interesting people and a lot of
interesting topics were gathered in Havana. I am particularly interested in
finding out more about: "Seth Chaklin challenged the audience 's concept of
ZPD with a new proposal." How can I fond out more about it??
Ana
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From: Pedro R Portes [mailto:prport01@louisville.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 6:01 PM
To: JDiamondstone@Clarku.edu; ch-sig@yahoogroups.com
Cc: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re:Postcard from Hominis, Cuba
Hey folks, just a brief blurb on how the Human Dev. - socio-cultural
conference went in Havana a couple of weeks ago...
The Biennial Hominis Conference on Human Development on 11/3- 11-9 went
well and was fairly well attended internationally. The opening feature F.
Munne Barcelona on Globalization and psychology but most of the sessions
were CHAT in nature, with a few empirical studies.
Joe Glick spoke re. tensions between the scientific and humanistic
agendas which went over extremely well, so much that I did not get my
audience for another half hour after the scheduled time (re. closing the
ach. gap).
Functional units for psych. analyses were discussed and argued to have been
expanded on rather unevenly after LSV's concern for fofe experience. Seth
Chaklin challenged the audience 's concept of ZPD with a new proposal.
Pedraza and the Hunter College crew presented their community work. Cubans
focused on a variety of themes including work with special education,
teacher education and counseling work in community centers.
Other highlites included the Havana Yatch Club reception, and one of our
U.S. presenters getting to meet , shake hands and be photgraphed with Fidel
and Spielberg as those two spent 48hrs around town.
Wanda Rodriguez, the new president of SIP (APA Psychological Interamerican
Society) vowed to reach out and invite our CHAT SIG to Peru, (2003) on
their next event.
Joining chatters in Sevilla for ISCAR was also discussed for the following
year...etc
They also have plans for Hominis 2004. A CD with most of the presentations
was made available. Of particular interest was the more open discussion
about the issue of having achieved a high level of literacy, an educated
population without the social conditions to meet the rising expectations
which was somewhat unexpected to hear. Although i cannot comment on R.
Duran's session per se, he was able to capture also some interesting
variations from the traditional discourses heard there before (among Cubans
psychologists trained by LSV's students) The jazz was very good at nite etc,
perhaps some of the others who participated might add more....
Judy, when you can, can you do a blurb on what's up in Chicago etc. with
the themes..?
Thanks
pedro
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