ISCAR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2011

Pre-conference from the CHACDOC section

Monday, September 5th, 2011 (10:00-17:15)

Room Marconi - CNR, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7 - Rome

Pre-conference from the CHACDOC section (Cultural-Historical Approaches to Children’s Development and Childhood) at ISCAR Conference Rome 2011

An analytical approach to children’s perspectives based on Cultural-Historical and activity conceptions

Organiser: Mariane Hedegaard

The purpose of the CHACDOC section under ISCAR is to create a forum for researchers who are interested using the cultural-historical research approach and activity theory as a way to unite developmental psychology and childhood reseach in their reseach about children. Developmental psychology has often been characterised historically as the study of 'the general child', with a focus on developing a model that can be used to evaluate individual children and their changing relation to society as they grow up. Childhood studies have focused on the study of children anchored in historical time and settings; such approaches are more commonly found within anthropological and sociological traditions, especially those that focus on situated and localised practice with children. Cultural-historical approaches seek to unite the general principles in relation to historical time and place.

This preconference is the fourth scientific event of the CHACDOC section under ISCAR and is open to everybody interested (CHACDOC members, PhD students with a special interest in CHACDOC and everybody else). Maximum participation is 50 participants. This event has a small participation fee (as listed below) and is a separate and independent event from the PhD’s day (which is going to take place in parallel, i.e. it is impossible to participate in both events).

Lecturer:

• Professor Karin Aronsson Head of the Department of Child and Youth studies, Stockholm University,
• Professor Liv Mette Gulbrandsen, Oslo University College
• Professor Mariane Hedegaard (Head of Centre for Person, Practice, Development and Culture
• Associate Professor Charlotte Højholt Roskilde University Centre, Denmark
• Professor Anna Stetsenko, Graduate School, City University New York University

10.00-10.15	Mariane Hedegaard Opening of the CHACDOC event	Opening of the CHACDOC preconference
10.15-10.45	Anna Stetsenko	Agency and Personhood in Development and Learning from a Transformative Activist Stance
10.45-11.15	Discussion
11.15-11.45	Charlotte Højholt	How children arrange social communities across contexts
11.45-12.15	Discussion
12.30-13.30	Lunch - CNR Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7
13.30-14.00	Karin Aronsson	Affective stances and children's positionings
14.00-14.30	Discussion
14.30-15.00	Mette Guldbrandsen	Researching children's participation: A developmental approach
15.00-15.30	Discussion
15.30-15.45	Pause
15.45-16.15	Mariane Hedegaard	Children’s social situation of development
16.15-16.45	Discussion
16.45-17.15	Closing the CHACDOC event