Pre- conferences introduction

The first day of 2011 Congress will be devoted to two parallel and separates pre-conferences:

» The ISCAR PhD STUDENTS’ DAY

» The CHACDOC section pre-conferences

The 1st ISCAR PhD Students’ Day will give special attention to a kind of “doctoral counseling”, focusing on the different phases of doctoral research work There will be spaces/times for dialogues, presentations and debates, including the participation of Senior Researchers that will discuss parts of PhD students’ work and provide some suggestions. For instance, the opportunity of discussing data analysis will be given to doctoral students who have already collected their empirical data.
For the event PhD students will be invited to send proposals that correspond to one of the congress topics. Three types of proposals will be accepted: posters, papers and PhD thesis dialogues (see more information on Proposal Submission for the PhD Students’ Day). Proposals must be submitted until the 04th September 2010.

The CHACDOC pre-conference is the fourth scientific event of the CHACDOC section under ISCAR. 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 research in their research about children. Developmental psychology has often been characterized 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 localized practice with children. Cultural-historical approaches seek to unite the general principles in relation to historical time and place.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

• The registration to one of the two pre-conferences is subordinated to the registration to the ISCAR CONFERENCE.
• As the pre-conferences are two parallel events, there’s no possibility to submit the registration to both events. You must chose if you participate in the PhD Students’ Day OR in CHACDOC Pre-Conference.
• In case of two proposals submitted by the same PhD student (one for the ISCAR PhD Students’ Day and one for the ISCAR Conference), these have to be different contributions.