ISCRAT 98 Programme details


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                           Opening Session
June 7, 1998                                                      Sunday
Session 1                                                   9:30 - 12:45

Opening of the Congress

Chair: Mariane Hedegaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Greetings from the President of the Congress
    Mariane Hedegaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Greetings from the Rector of the University of Aarhus
    Henning Lehmann, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Music
    Michala Petri, Denmark
    Lars Hannibal, Denmark
  Lecture In Honor of Vasili V. Davydov (1930-1998)
    Vladislav A. Lektorsky, Russian Academy of Philosophy, Russia
  Coffee Break -- 30 minutes
  The Modern Theory of the Structure of Activity
    Vasili V. Davydov, Russian Academy of Education (read by Joachim
    Lompscher),
  On Vygotsky's Research and Life
    Ghita Vygotskaya, Russia
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                             Invited Panel
June 7, 1998                                                      Sunday
Session 2                                                   14:15 - 17:30

Philosophical Activity and Social Practice

Chair: Uffe Juul Jensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Lecture In Honor of Marx Wartofsky (1928-1997): Philosophical
  Categories and Understanding Social Practice
    Uffe Juul Jensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Public Philosophy and International Feminism
    Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago, USA
  Activism
    Terence Turner, University of Chicago, USA
  Coffee Break -- 30 minutes
  Panel Discussion
    Uffe Juul Jensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    Vladislav A. Lektorsky, Russian Academy of Philosophy, Russia
    Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago, USA
    Terence Turner, University of Chicago, USA
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                             Invited Panel
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 3                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Contemporary Evolutionary Thinking: Vygotsky, Luria and
Leontiev Revisited

Chair:       Ethel Tobach, American Museum of Natural History, USA
  Contemporary Issues in Evolutionary Theory and Activity Theory
    Ethel Tobach, American Museum of Natural History, USA
  "Activity" Revisited as Object of Study and as Explanatory Principle -
  Old Borderlines and New Perspectives
    Bernd Fichtner, University of Siegen, Germany
  Evolution as a Historical Process
    Tim Ingold, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
  Activity Theory, Evolution of the Nervous System and Ecology in the
  Phylogeny of the Animal Psyche
    Demetrio Campa, University of Havana, Cuba
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                             Invited Panel
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 4                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Technological Mediation - Situations, Problems, Concepts and
Design

Chair:       Susanne Bødker, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Contributors
    Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland
    Victor Kaptelinin, University of Umeå, Sweden
    Kari Kuutti, University of Oulu, Finland
    Bonnie Nardi, AT&T Labs West, USA
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 5                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Narratives, Emotions and the Self - I

Chair: Uffe Juul Jensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Fundamentals of Human Caregiving: The Early Beginnings
    Jerome Bruner, New York University, USA
  Narrative Suspense and the Lost Self
    Cheryl Mattingly, University of Southern California, USA
  Acts of Knowing, Arts of Narration
    Deborah Hicks, University of Delaware, USA
  Self and Other in Bakhtin and in the Non-Classical Psychology of Lev
  Vygotsky
    Igor Solomadin, High School OCHAG, Ukraine
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               Theme 1.3 Changing and Building Institutions
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 6                                                   11:00 - 17:30

Toward Utopian Methodology: Integrating Intervention in
Developmental Research
Co-Chairs:   Michael Cole, University of California, San Diego, USA
          Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Ethnographic Experiments: Creating Activity Systems that Mediate the
  Relationship between Homes and Classrooms
    Luis Moll, University of Arizona, USA
  Sustainability as a Utopian Anchor Point in Cultural-historical Activity
  Research
    Michael Cole, University of California, San Diego, USA
  Expanding Dual Stimulation: Developmental Work Research as a
  Kitchen Door Methodology
    Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
  The Learning of Adult Newcomers Joining a Community of Learners
    Barbara Rogoff, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
    Eugene Matusov, University of Delaware, USA
Toward Utopian Methodology: Integrating Intervention in
Developmental Research: Discussion Forum

Chair:       Barbara Rogoff, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
  Participants
    Luis Moll, University of Arizona, USA
    Michael Cole, University of California, San Diego, USA
    Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Barbara Rogoff, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
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                       Theme 2.3 Technology and Work
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 7                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Scientific Practice, Social Practice and Management

Chair: Roberta Hill, Lincoln University, New Zealand
  Motivation, Activity, Management
    S.G. Moskvichov, Ukranian Paedagogical Academy, Ukraine
  Looking for New Forms of Farming - Two Organic Vegetable Farm
  Cases
    Laura Seppänen, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Emergence and Development of a New Activity in Potato Biotechnology
  at the University of Helsinki 1990-96
    Juha Tuunainen, Center for Activity Theory and Dev. Work Research,
    Finland
  The Trajectories of New Ideas in the Change Laboratory
    Juha Pihlaja, University of Helsinki, Finland
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                   Theme 2.1 Social Practice and Gender
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 8                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Gender Network and Collaboration

Chair: Kristina Westerberg, University of Umeå, Sweden
  The Ways in Which Gender is Materially Mediated (both Male and
  Female) and Exploring How Seemingly Non-material (or Traditionally
  Cognitive) Aspects of Gender Order Also Mediate as Tools
    Susan Leigh Star, University of Illinois, USA
  The Theme of Masculinization of the Discourse and Activities of Natural
  Science and Academic Professions
    Jay L. Lemke, City University of New York, USA
  Gender, Visual Cultures and Work
    Ina Wagner, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
  Discussant
    Vera John-Steiner, University of New Mexico, USA
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                    Theme 2.6 Electronic Communication
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 9                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Thinking Across Networks

Chair: Eva Ekeblad, University of Göteborg, Sweden
  Contact, Community and Multilogue: Electronic Communication in the
  Practice of Scholarship
    Eva Ekeblad, University of Göteborg, Sweden
  Discursive Acts in Computer Mediated Communication
    Giuseppe Mininni, University of Bari, Italy
    Beatrice Ligorio, University of Bari, Italy
  Collaborative Computer-Based Problem Solving in Computer Network
    Tsuyoshi Ogata, Chuo University, Japan
    Vitali V. Rubtsov, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
  The World Wide Web and the Dialectics of Consciousness
    Martin Ryder, Storage Technology Corporation, USA
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                 Theme 1.2 Institutions and Organizations
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 10                                                   11:00 - 13:00

The Construction of Contemporary Subjectivity and the Role of
Knowledge in the School Environment

Chair:       Bernd Fichtner, University of Siegen, Germany
  The Children's Experience with School and Knowledge from the
  Memories of Teachers
    Maria Tereza A. Freitas, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  Interactions between Knowledge and School Environment: What do
  Children and Adults Talk about?
    Solange Jobim e Souza, Catholic Pontificial University of Rio de
    Janeiro,
    Brazil
  Who's Looking at Whom? Pinhole Photography as a Means in Learning
  Activity
    Jochen Dietrich, University of Siegen, Germany
  Proposal and Problems for the Construction of Subjectivity
    Maria Benites, University of Siegen, Brazil
    Bernd Fichtner, University of Siegen, Germany
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 11                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Discourse and School Practices: Some Issues and Perspectives

Chair: Ana Luiza Bustamente Smolka, State University of Campinas,
             Brazil
  Memory and Literature: A Study of Discursive Processes in a School
  Context
    Ana Luiza Bustamente Smolka, State University of Campinas, Brazil
    Elizabeth dos Santos Braga, State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil
  Interaction and Silence in the Classroom
    Adriana Lia Friszman de Laplane, State University of Campinas, Brazil
  The Discursive Construction of Power in School Practice
    Antonia Candela, Dept. of Educational Studies, Mexico
  Discussant
    Fran Hagstrom, University of Houston, USA
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 12                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Critical Issues in the Design of Teaching Programs for Young
Children

Chair:       Carolyn P. Panofsky, Rhode Island College, USA
  Education as Teacher-and-Pupil Co-Creation
    Helena Kubrakova, School-Lyceum No. 90, Russia
    Ludmila Kozachek, School-Lyceum No. 90, Russia
  Intergenerational Discourse Practices: Hidden Dynamics in Cultural
  Development
    Carolyn P. Panofsky, Rhode Island College, USA
  On the Way to Personality Oriented Teaching
    Lada Aidarova, Moscow State University, Russia
  Designing Age Development Programmes for Children between
  Pre-School and School Age
    Elena Bougrimenko, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
    Katerina Polivanova, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
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              Theme 1.4 Activity, Thinking, and Communication
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 13                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Adults' Everyday Ideas and Social Representations about
Development and Educational Social Practices

Chair:       Felice Carugati, University of Bologna, Italy
  Activity Theory and Social Representations: Two Complementary Ways
  to a Better Understanding of Everyday Life?
    Felice Carugati, University of Bologna, Italy
  Social Representations and Priming Events: Italian Children's
  Transition from Preschool to Elementary School
    William A. Corsaro, Indiana University, USA
    Luisa Molinari, University of Bologna, Italy
  Children's Development: Evolution of a Study on Mothers' Social
  Representations
    Francesca Emiliani, University of Bologna, Italy
  Parents' Assessments of Their Children's Abilities
    Hannu Räty, University of Joensuu, Finland
    Leila Snellman, University of Joensuu, Finland
    Aki Vainikainen, University of Joensuu, Finland
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              Theme 1.4 Activity, Thinking, and Communication
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 14                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Analyzing Joint Problem Solving and Communication in
Practical Situations

Chair:       Michael Baker, University of Lyon 2, France
  "Grounding" for Intersubjectivity and Learning
    Michael Baker, University of Lyon 2, France
    Richard Joiner, Open University, United Kingdom
    David Traum, University of Maryland, USA
    Tia Hansen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Artifact Design and Communication in Practical Activity
    Peter E. Jones, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
  Group Problem Solving as a Process of Mediated Action
    Hilde van Vlaenderen, Rhodes University, South Africa
  "It doesn't Fit This Theory". The Producer-User Dialogue in a Problem
  Solving Situation
    Mervi Hasu, University of Helsinki, Finland
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                   Theme 3.3 Defining Units of Analysis
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 15                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Cultural and Historical Dimensions as a Unit of Analysis
Co-Chairs:
          René van der Veer, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
          Seth Chaiklin, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  The Concept of "Personality" in Cultural-Historical Psychology
    Seth Chaiklin, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Transcending the Dichotomy of Theory and Practice - A Theme in the
  Cultural-Historical Approach
    Falk Seeger, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  The Origins of "Activity" as a Category in the Philosophies of Kant,
  Fichte, and Hegel
    Charles W. Tolman, University of Victoria, Canada
  The "Unit of Analysis" in Cultural-Historical Psychology
    René van der Veer, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 16                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Basic Psychological Processes - I

Chair: Manuel L. de la Mata, University of Sevilla, Spain
  Temporal Sequences in Manual Stereognosis Processes in Blind and
  Blindfolded Sighted Subjects
    David Travieso, The Autonomous University Madrid, Spain
    Florentino Blanco, The Autonomous University Madrid, Spain
    Alberto Rosa, The Autonomous University Madrid, Spain
  On the Problem of Synesthesia: Psycholinguistic Aspect
    Alfia Merzliakova, Udmurt State University, Russia
  Historical Development of Voluntary Memory and Voluntary Motions:
  Istomina and Manuylenko Revisited
    Elena Ivanova, Kharkov State University, Ukraine
  Teacher-Student Interaction and Text Comprehension and Memory: A
  Semiotic Analysis of Instructional Actions
    Manuel L. de la Mata, University of Sevilla, Spain
    Andrés Santamaría, University of Sevilla, Spain
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              Theme 1.4 Activity, Thinking, and Communication
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 17                                                   11:00 - 13:00

The Construction of Intersubjectivity across Diverse
Institutional and Cultural Settings

Chair:       Mariëtte Hoogsteder, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Intersubjectivity and Communication Practices: A Study of Didactic
  Interactions of a Native American Group, the Mazahuas
    Mariëtte de Haan, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Scientific Explanation, Self-understanding and the Role of 'Others': A
  Case of Establishing Intersubjectivity in an Elementary Classroom
    Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, University of Washington, USA
  Intersubjectivity and Dilemmas of Communication in a Legal Welfare
  Setting: The Talk of Family Guardians and Their Clients
    Mariëtte Hoogsteder, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Discussant
    Ulla Sätterlund Larsson, University of Linköping, Sweden
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 18                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Architecture of/in Thinking: A Comparative Analysis of Models

Chair: Serena Veggetti, University of Rome 1, Italy
  Thinking and Learning as Processes of Innovation
    Jytte Bang, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  Tools for the Architects of Thinking
    Bert van Oers, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  ZPD as a Theoretical Principle and as a Subject for Research
    Vitali V. Rubtsov, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
  Strategic Thinking and Logical Formal Thinking: What develops in the
  "Learning - Context" and How?
    Serena Veggetti, University of Rome 1, Italy
    Stefano Taddei, University of Siena, Italy
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 19                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Narratives, Emotions and the Self - II

Chair: Uffe Juul Jensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Emotions as Judgment of Value
    Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago, USA
  Narrative Identity and the Self
    Uffe Juul Jensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  The Affective Construction of the Subject in Mythical Narrative
    Terence Turner, University of Chicago, USA
  Actions Speak Louder than Words: Patterning of Emotion in Baining
  Life History Narratives and Social Activity
    Jane Fajans, Cornell University, USA
  How Can Cultural and Interactive Explanations Coexist? Reflections on
  East German and South Indian Life Stories
    Michael B. Carrithers, University of Durham, England
  Icons of Youth Culture: Speech Genres and the Mediation of Knowledge
  and Identity
    George Kamberelis, Purdue University, USA
    Gregory Dimitriadis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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                       Theme 2.3 Technology and Work
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 20                                                   14:30 - 17:00

Technology and the Learning Organization - I

Chair: Susanne Bødker, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Technologies for Cooperation, Technologies for Knowledge Creation
    Alessandra Agostini, University of Milan, Italy
    Giorgio de Michelis, University of Milan, Italy
  Against Organisation
    Olav W. Bertelsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Dialogue in Design
    Ellen Christiansen, University of Aalborg, Denmark
  Between Tools and Obstacles: Information Systems as Embodiments of
  Organisational Learning
    Kari Kuutti, University of Oulu, Finland
    Tonja Molin-Juustila, University of Oulu, Finland
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 21                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Play and Interaction among Preschool Children

Chair: Pentti Hakkarainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
  Peer Interaction and Socialisation: A Study on Conflict Managing in
  Urban and Rural Preschoolers
    Virginia Martinez-Lozano, University of Sevilla, Spain
    José A. Sánchez-Medina, University of Sevilla, Spain
  Imitation in Young Children's Social Interactions
    Zilma de Moraes Ramos de Oliveira, University of São Paolo, Brazil
    Marlene Goncalves, University of São Paolo, Brazil
    Viviane C. Besani, University of São Paolo, Brazil
    Lenice Frazatto, University of São Paolo, Brazil
    Maria Luiza Junqueira, University of São Paolo, Brazil
  Characteristics of Play Activity of Children Living in Orphanages
    Daniele Henrique Silva, State University of Campinas, Brazil
    Maria Cecilia R. Góes, State University of Campinas, Brazil
  Play of Pre-School Children from the Perspective of Activity Theory
    Ning Yang, South China Normal University, P. R. China
  The Correlation of the Leading-Activity and the Age-Psychological New
  Formation Notions
    Elena E. Kravtsova, Laboratory of Psychology and Pedagogy of
    Education, Russia
  Discussant
    Pentti Hakkarainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 22                                                   14:30 - 17:30

Social Practice, Meaning and Representation

Chair: Juan-Daniel Ramírez, University of Sevilla, Spain
  Activity as Sense Making
    Ritva Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Social Practice as a Tool in Problem Solving, Related to Students
  Cooperating in Writing
    Torlaug L. Hoel, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
    Norway
  The Role of Literacy in the Development of Meaning. The Interface
  between History of Culture and Historical-Cultural Psychology
    Juan-Daniel Ramírez, University of Sevilla, Spain
  Makers and Users of Multi-Voiced Texts: Towards a Theory to Underpin
  Evaluation of a Cancer Information Service on the World Wide Web
    Sally Tweddle, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
  Discussant
    Juan-Daniel Ramírez, University of Sevilla, Spain
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                   Theme 3.3 Defining Units of Analysis
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 23                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Methodological Problems: Researchers and Teachers

Chair: Wim L. Wardekker, Free University of Amsterdam, The
             Netherlands
  "It Sounds Good, But Can It Be Generalized?"
    Seth Chaiklin, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Narratives and Narrative Inquiry
    Sigrun Gudmundsdottir, Norwegian University of Science and
    Technology, Norway
  Developing Communities of Inquiry in Education as a Research
  Approach
    Gordon Wells, University of Toronto, Canada
  Criteria for the Quality of Inquiry
    Wim L. Wardekker, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Panel Discussion
    Seth Chaiklin, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    Sigrun Gudmundsdottir, Norwegian University of Science and
    Technology, Norway
    Wim L. Wardekker, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Gordon Wells, University of Toronto, Canada
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 24                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Discourse Construction - I: Discourse, Self, Setting

Chair: Mercedes Cubero, University of Sevilla, Spain
  Multi-voiced Formation of Self as Appropriation of False Self: A
  Classroom Research in Japan
    Yuko Hosaka, Osaka University of Education, Japan
  Activity Setting, Modes of Discourse and Ways of Thinking
    Mercedes Cubero, University of Sevilla, Spain
    David Rubio, University of Sevilla, Spain
  Speech Style-Switching as Mediation of Child's Self-Regulatory Behavior
  in Japan
    Nobumoto Tajima, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
Discourse Construction - II: Social Construction of Knowledge

Chair: Mercedes Cubero, University of Sevilla, Spain
  Joint Forgetting of Defendants' Personal Experience in Japanese
  Courtroom
    Kotaro Takagi, Tokyo Gakugel University, Japan
  Constructing a Case: Analyzing the Object of Courtwork Activity in
  Transition
    Vaula Haavisto, University of Helsinki, Finland
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Discourse Construction - II: Social Construction of Knowledge

Chair:       Mercedes Cubero, University of Sevilla, Spain
  Communications on a Child Abuse Hotline: Implications for Activity
  Theory and Practice
    Robert J. Beck, University of California, Irvine, USA
    Kathleen L. Bridges, Orange County Social Services Agency, USA
    Carolle Lundberg, Orange County Social Services Agency, USA
    Carol Mitchell, Orange County Social Services Agency, USA
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              Theme 1.4 Activity, Thinking, and Communication
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 25                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Development of Creative Activity

Chair: Gertrud Kamper, Berlin Academy of Art, Germany
  The Micro-Social Context of Problem Generation in Science: Some
  Reflections From a Case-Study on Anthropology/Ethnology and
  Cognitive Psychology
    Jan Bärmark, University of Göteborg, Sweden
  Purpose, Dialogism and Addressivity in Creative Writing
    Lisa Satanovsky, Washington University, USA
  Development of Research Topics/Problems in Graduate Students' Ph.D.
  Work
    Carl Martin Allwood, Göteborg University, Sweden
  Social Institutions and Cultural-Historical Factors in Forming Highly
  Productive Human Activity
    Larisa V. Shavinina, National Institute for the Study of Work and
    Professional Orientation, France
  And What About Creativity? Some Ideas Concerning the Thinking About
  and the Place and Role of Creativity
    Gertrud Kamper, Berlin Academy of Art, Germany
  Discussant
    Vera John-Steiner, University of New Mexico, USA
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                   Theme 3.3 Defining Units of Analysis
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 26                                                   14:30 - 17:30

The Paradigm of Nonclassic Psychology of Human
Development: From Relativity of Activity to Relativity of
Consciousness
Co-Chairs:
             Aleksandr Asmolov, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
          Vitali V. Rubtsov, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
  The Paradigm of Nonclassic Psychology of Human Development: From
  Relativity of Activity to Relativity of Consciousness
    Aleksandr Asmolov, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
  Activity Concept of Relativity
    Peeter Tulviste, University of Tartu, Estonia
  Personal Sense as a Unit of Consciousness and Activity
    Aleksei A. Leontiev, The Leo Tolstoy Institute, Russia
  Designing of the Worlds and Mutual Activity
    Vitali V. Rubtsov, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
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                    Theme 3.1 Theoretical Controversies
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 27                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Conceptualization of Personality in Activity

Chair: Dmitri A. Leontiev, Moscow State University, Russia
  Construction of Subjective Destiny Representation as Personal
  Existential Activity
    Veronica Nourkova, Moscow State University, Russia
  Actor's Mental State as a Personality System Forming Unit of Human
  Activity
    V. N. Yurchenko, G.S. Kostiuk's Institute of Psychology, Ukraine
  Deed as a Unit of Analysis in Historical Psychology
    Helena E. Sokolova, Moscow State University, Russia
  Human Motivation, Activity and Personality
    Gustavo Pineda, University of Managua, Nicaragua
  Sense Generation and its Psychological Mechanisms
    Dmitri A. Leontiev, Moscow State University, Russia
  From Units of Analysis to Beings in Transformation
    Aydan Gülerce, Bogazici University, Turkey
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 28                                                   14:30 - 17:00

Basic Psychological Processes - II

Chair: Manuel L. de la Mata, University of Sevilla, Spain
  Activity Theory and the Neuropsychological Study of the Spatial
  Functions in the Elderly
    Elena Balachova, Moscow State University, Russia
  Application of the Zone of Proximal Development to the Aging
    Natalia K. Korsakova, Moscow State University, Russia
  The Sign Language and the Deaf: Social Actions and Sign Construction
    Paulo Eduardo Mendes da Silva, Catholic Pontifical University of São
    Paulo, Brazil
  Discussant
    Alberto Rosa, The Autonomous University Madrid, Spain
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             Theme 2.2 Social Practice and Cultural Minorities
June 8, 1998                                                      Monday
Session 29                                                   14:30 - 17:00

Excellence and Equity through Institutional Linkages

Chair: Olga A. Vásquez, University of California, San Diego, USA
  "Success" and "Failure" in the Fifth Dimension Cultural System
    Margaret Gallego, University of California, San Diego, USA
    Robert Rueda, University of Southern California, USA
  Literacy Learning of Latino Children in Bilingual Computer-Mediated
  Activity Systems
    Richard Durán, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
    Olga A. Vásquez, University of California, San Diego, USA
  Communications with the Wizard: An Extra Opportunity for Learning
  English as a Second Language
    Irina Verenikina, University of Wollongong, Australia
  Cognition, Context and Co-determining Learning: A Social Practice
  Perspective on Equity and Excellence
    Lynda Stone, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    Kris Gutierrez, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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                          Invited Panel
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 30                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Texts of National Identity

Chair: James V. Wertsch, Washington University, USA
  Contributors
    Sirkka Ahonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Aleksandr Asmolov, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
    Jens Brockmeier, OISE/University of Toronto, Canada
    Carol Feldman, New York University, USA
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                         Invited Panel
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 31                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Activity Theory and the Study of Work and Organizations

Chair: Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Contributors
    Frank Blackler, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom
    Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Roberta Hill, Lincoln University, New Zealand
    Naoki Ueno, National Institute for Educational Research, Japan
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 32                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Current Challenges for Developing Conception of Personality in
the Cultural-Historical Approach; its Consequences into
Education Practice

Chair: Fernando González Rey, University of Havana, Cuba
  Contextual, Interactional and Subjective Dimensions of Cooperation and
  Competition: A Co-Constructivist Analysis
    Angela Branco, University of Brasilia, Brazil
  Activity and Personality Self Development
    Gloria Fariñas León, University of Havana, Cuba
  Personality, Subject and Human Development; the Subjective Character
  of Human Activity
    Fernando González Rey, University of Havana, Cuba
  Activity and Theory of Personality
    Hiram Váldes, High Institute of Sport Research, Cuba
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                       Theme 2.3 Technology and Work
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 33                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Technology and the Learning Organization - II

Chair: Susanne Bødker, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  The Self-Assembling Organisation: Learning through Bricolage
    Dan Shapiro, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom
  Activities, Networks and Information Systems: Can Nigerian Systems
  Developers Make Use of Developmental Work Research?
    Mikko Korpela, University of Kuopio, Finland
    K.C. Olufokunbi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
    H. A. Soriyan, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
  On the Dialectics of Coordination and Cooperation at Work
    Christoph Clases, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
    Theo Wehner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
  Discussant
    Susanne Bødker, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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                    Theme 2.6 Electronic Communication
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 34                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Crossing Boundaries between Work Practices by Means of
Electronic Communication

Chair:       Kari Kuutti, University of Oulu, Finland
  Crossing Boundaries between Work Practices by Means of Electronic
  Communication
    Jakob Bardram, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Centres, Peripheries, and Electronic Communication
    Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Queensland, Australia
  Implementation of an Electronic Communication Network in an Alliance
  of Subcontracting Companies
    Hanna Toiviainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Virtual Prototype - A Common Boundary Object for Distant Designers
    Tuomo Tuikka, University of Oulu, Finland
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              Theme 1.4 Activity, Thinking, and Communication
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 35                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Acquisition of Writing Activity

Chair: Ritva Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Dialogue between the Initial and High Forms of Consciousness is a
  Condition for Creative Development
    T.Y. Sokolova, School-Lyceum No. 204, Russia
  The Method to Prevent the Negative Impact of Electronic Media on
  Developing the Young Generation Dominative Activity
    Nicolas Bastun, Kostiuk Institute of Psychology, Ukraine
    Veniamin Litovsky, Kostiuk Institute of Psychology, Ukraine
  A Bakhtinian Approach to Speech in The Teaching of Writing
    Irina Staragina, Center of Developmental Education, Ukraine
  An Activity Theory Model of Languaging for Composition Pedagogy
    Judith Diamondstone, Rutgers University, USA
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                          Theme 2.7 Welfare State
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 36                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Civil Society, the State and the International Community

Chair: Yrjö-Paavo Häyrynen, University of Joensuu, Finland
  British 'Consensus' vs Swedish 'Samförstånd' in Parliamentary Debates
    Cornelia Ilie, Stockholm University, Sweden
    Lennart Hellspong, University of Södertörn, Sweden
  Reflections on Internationalization - from the Angle of Cultural
  Sociology, Wittgenstein's Notion and an Empirical Study
    Yrjö-Paavo Häyrynen, University of Joensuu, Finland
  Service-Learning as Transformative Agent in a University Curriculum:
  Mediation between Gesellschaft and Gemeinschaft
    Elizabeth Henning, Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa
    Dora Daniels, Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa
  Discussant
    Peeter Tulviste, University of Tartu, Estonia
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 37                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Analyzing Teacher/Student Classroom Discourse

Chair: Roger Säljö, University of Göteborg, Sweden
  A Relational Approach to Thinking About Participating in Classroom
  Social Practice
    Carol Linehan, University College Cork, Ireland
    John McCarthy, University College Cork, Ireland
  Classroom Discourse: A Sociocultural Perspective on Learning and
  Learning Disabilities
    Myra J. Kraker, Calvin College, USA
  Narrative and Argument in Teachers and Researcher Interactions on
  Classroom Discourse: Different Ways of Organizing Salient and
  Problematic Action
    Maria Cécilia Camargo Magalhães, Catholic Pontifical University of São
    Paulo, Brazil
  Discussant
    Mariëtte Hoogsteder, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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               Theme 1.3 Changing and Building Institutions
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 38                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Transformation from Homogeneity and Monologue to Diversity
and Dialogue in Japanese Educational Practice

Chair:       Noboru Takahashi, Osaka University of Education, Japan
  From Monologic to Dialogic Understanding: A Case Study of Japanese
  Mathematics Classroom
    Kayo Matsushita, Gunma University, Japan
  Recognizing Social Problems in Social Studies Education
    Katsuhiro Yamazumi, Osaka University of Education, Japan
  Handicapped Children Meet Heterogeneous Others in School and
  Learning Begins
    Noboru Takahashi, Osaka University of Education, Japan
  Discussant
    Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
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                          Theme 2.7 Welfare State
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 39                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Changes in Welfare State Practices and their Psychology -I:
Constitution of Subjects in Welfare State Practices
Co-Chairs: Morten Nissen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
           Kenneth Hultqvist, Stockholm School of Education, Sweden
  Mobilizing Street Kids: The Action Contexts of Independence
    Morten Nissen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  Creativity, Schooling, Educational Research and Political Rationality.
  The Reinvention of the Subject of Schooling
    Kenneth Hultqvist, Stockholm School of Education, Sweden
  Discourses of Learning and Individuality in the Present-Day Welfare
  State
    Line Lerche Mørck, Danish Research and Development Center for Adult
    Education, Denmark
  Using the Disease Model of Substance Addiction: Societal Perspectives
  on Psycho-Social Treatment
    Morten Hesse, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    Louise Østergaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    Anne Jønsson, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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                       Theme 2.4 Designing Artifacts
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 40                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Perspectives on Designed Artifacts and Mathematical Learning

Chair: Paul Cobb, Vanderbilt University, USA
  Talking Reality into Being: Investigating the Co-Emergence of the
  Discourse of Mathematics and of its Objects
    Anna Sfard, University of Haifa, Israel
  Artifacts and Notational Systems as Tools for Understanding
  Mathematics
    Analucia D. Schliemann, Tufts University, USA
  The Interplay between Form and Function in Children's Use of Artifacts
    Geoffrey Saxe, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  From Representations to Symbolizing: Individual and Communal
  Development in the Mathematics Classroom
    Paul Cobb, Vanderbilt University, USA
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 41                                                   11:00 - 13:00

The Constitution of Subjectivity within Social Practices:
Memory and Change

Chair:       Ana Luiza Bustamente Smolka, State University of Campinas,
             Brazil
  A Nation Transfigured? Discourse, Memory and the Death of a Princess
    Andrew Lock, Massey University, New Zealand
    Chris Sinha, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Remembering as Social Practice: Identity and Life Story Work in
  Transitions of Care for People with Profound Learning Disabilities
    Helen Hewitt, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
    David Middleton, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
  Images, Words and Desires: Bits and Pieces in the Weaving of Memories
  to Make a (Hi)story
    Ana Luiza Bustamente Smolka, State University of Campinas, Brazil
    Adriana Lia Friszman de Laplane, State University of Campinas, Brazil
    Elizabeth dos Santos Braga, State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil
  Discussant
    James V. Wertsch, Washington University, USA
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                 Theme 1.2 Institutions and Organizations
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 42                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Discourse and Socialization in Families

Chair: Clotilde Pontecorvo, University of Rome, Italy
  Mutual Apprentices: How Children and Parents Learn Their Roles in
  Family Conversation
    Clotilde Pontecorvo, University of Rome, Italy
    A. Fasulo, University of Rome, Italy
    L. Sterponi, University of Rome, Italy
  Narrative as Prayer
    Lisa Capps, University of California, Berkeley, USA
    Elinor Ochs, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  On Jokes and Metaphors in Multiparty Talk - Nonliteral Interaction in
  Family Therapy Sessions
    Karin Aronsson, University of Linköping, Sweden
    Ann-Christin Cederborg, University of Linköping, Sweden
  Discussant
    Tiia Tulviste, University of Tartu, Estonia
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               Theme 1.3 Changing and Building Institutions
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 43                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Development Of and Through Artistic Activity

Chair: Hanne Holm, Seminariet for Formgivning, Denmark
  Theory and Assimilative Practice in the Creative Process within the
  Present Development of Education
    John Bertelsen, Seminariet for Formgivning, Denmark
    Hanne Holm, Seminariet for Formgivning, Denmark
  Art Mediating Learning: Art Activities and the Culture of School
    J. David Betts, University of Arizona, USA
  Becoming a Performer: Learning and Communication in the
  Apprenticeship of Performing Arts
    Masato Fukushima, International University of Japan, Japan
  A Format for Collecting and Designing Cultural Artifacts for Use in a
  Multicultural Classroom
    Joseph Uduehi, Northern Illinois University, USA
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              Theme 1.4 Activity, Thinking, and Communication
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 44                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Entering Society: Infants and Young Children's Activities

Chair: Eva Ullstadius, University of Göteborg, Sweden
  Development of Orienting in Infants: Shifting Attention from Adults'
  Face to Adults' Hand
    Sachiko Amano, Kagawa Nutrition University, Japan
    Emiko Kezuka Mori, Gunma Prefectual Women's University, Japan
    Atsuko Yamamoto, Kagawa Nutrition Junior College, Japan
  Interactions of 9 to 20 Month Old Babies Attending a Public Creche and
  Their Importance for Language Construction
    Glaís S. Cordeiro, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  The Development of Mother-Infant Conflict in the First 15 Months
    Eva Ullstadius, University of Göteborg, Sweden
  Mechanisms of Societal Mediation in Emotional Development
    Manfred Holodynski, University of Bielefeld, Germany
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               Theme 1.3 Changing and Building Institutions
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 45                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Activity Approaches to School Improvement and Innovation

Chair: Bea Pompert, Hogeschool Alkmaar, The Netherlands
  Activity Approaches in Environmental Education
    Piet Conijn, Hogeschool Alkmaar, The Netherlands
    Marianne Uylings, Hogeschool Alkmaar, The Netherlands
  Learning Mathematics: To Count on the Teacher within Meaningful
  Activities
    Niko Fijma, Hogeschool Alkmaar, The Netherlands
  Preventing Failure in Learning to Read and Write
    Elly de Geus-Dorgelo, Hogeschool Alkmaar, The Netherlands
  From Play-Activity to Learning Activity: Developmental Education for
  Young Children (4-8 years)
    Didy van Brandwijk, Hogeschool Alkmaar, The Netherlands
    Bea Pompert, Hogeschool Alkmaar, The Netherlands
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                       Theme 2.3 Technology and Work
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 46                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Arne Raeithel's Contributions to Activity Theory
Co-Chairs:
             Christoph Clases, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
             Switzerland
             Michael Cole, University of California, San Diego, USA
  Re-centering in Virtuality: Arne Raeithel on the XLCHC
    Eva Ekeblad, University of Göteborg, Sweden
  Mach's Hen, Peircean Triadomania, Diagrammatic Enthusiasm, and
  Possible Futures of Psychological Methodology - Semiotic Ecological
  Communion with Arne Raeithel
    Alfred Lang, University of Bern, Switzerland
  Coordination, Cooperation and Communication in Work Teams: A Line
  of Research Sparkled by Arne Raeithel
    Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
  From Theory to Practice in Applied Psychology: Arne Raeithel's Concept
  of Cooperative Model Production
    Christoph Clases, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
  An Activity-Theoretical Approach - A Way to Useful Software
    Christian Dahme, Humboldt University, Germany
  Talking Matters at Work: Arne Raeithel's Scholarship and the Semiotic
  Regulation of Cooperative Work
    David Middleton, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
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                       Theme 2.4 Designing Artifacts
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 47                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Creating Artifacts: Design of Activities and Activities of Design

Chair: Victor Kaptelinin, University of Umeå, Sweden
  Usability Work: From Snapshot to Development of Use
    Susanne Bødker, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    Pernille Marqvardsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    Christina Nielsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    Kim Halskov Madsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  BUILD-IT: Intuitive Plant Layout Mediated by Natural Interaction
    Morten Fjeld, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
    Martin Bichsel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
    Matthias Rauterberg, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
  Reconciling Information Processing and Activity Theories: a Foundation
  Model for Creating Cognitive Artefacts
    Monique Linard, University of Paris 10 - Nanterre, France
    Claire Belisle, MRASH, France
    Romain Zeiliger, GATE-CNRS, France
  An Activity Theoretical Approach to Design of Computer Support for
  Cooperative Work
    Jakob Bardram, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Collaborative Technologies and Shared Workspaces: Transforming the
  Activity of School Administration
    William R. Penuel, San Francisco Unified School District, USA
    Andrew Cohen, Workplace Technologies Group, USA
  Individual Interface Design for Executive Information Systems: An
  Activity Theory Approach
    Edward Gould, University of Wollongong, Australia
    Irina Verenikina, University of Wollongong, Australia
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                       Theme 2.3 Technology and Work
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 48                                                   14:30 - 17:00

Introducing Electronic Records in Medical Settings

Chair: Randi Markussen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Envisioning and Historicizing: Incomplete Utopian Projects
    Judith Gregory, Kaiser Permanente, USA
  Constituting the Trading Zone Integrating the Electronic Record
    Randi Markussen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    Finn Olesen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Integration and Dis-Integration: Hospital Information Systems and
  Hospital Practice
    John McCarthy, University College Cork, Ireland
    Brenda O'Connor, University College Cork, Ireland
  Does a Common Client Data System Help Cross the Boundary between
  Social Welfare and Health Care?
    Ritva Poikela, University of Helsinki, Finland
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                    Theme 3.1 Theoretical Controversies
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 49                                                   14:30 - 17:30

Rethinking the Zone of Proximal Development: Multiple
Approaches from Learners' View

Chair:       Yutaka Sayeki, University of Tokyo, Japan
  Anger, Reconciliation, and Emancipation: ZPD as an Area of
  Emancipation from Conflicts and Struggles through the Dialogue with
  Alien "Voices"
    Yutaka Sayeki, University of Tokyo, Japan
    Yumi Hoshi, University of Tokyo, Japan
  "Haai, Doraemon." "Yeees, What's up": Pretend Play as ZPD for a
  Mother and a Child in Bathing Activity
    Chikako Toma, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
  An Initial Assessment of the Predominant Interpretation of ZPD and an
  Expansion on the Term as used in Schooling Contexts; Learning with
  Feeling within Relationships?
    Peter Kutnick, Roehampton Institute, United Kingdom
  The Zone of Proximal Development as a Symbolic Space
    Stephen Lerman, South Bank University, United Kingdom
    Luciano L. Meira, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
  Transitions in the Mutual Construction of the Zones of Proximal
  Development in Parent-Child Dyads
    Pentti Hakkarainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
    Aili Helenius, University of Oulu, Finland
    Kaisa Tolonen, University of Oulu, Finland
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 50                                                   14:30 - 18:00

National Identity, National Narratives, Nationalism

Chair: Chris Sinha, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Is a Compatriot more Intelligent than a Foreigner: Favoritism or
  Reciprocity?
    Nicktchehreh Mohseni, University of Tehran, Iran
  Identity and Discourse: Debates as a Tool to Approach the Dialogical
  and Discursive Nature of Culture Identity
    Juan-Daniel Ramírez, University of Sevilla, Spain
    Maria J. Marco-Macarro, University of Pablo de Olavide, Spain
    Beatriz Macías Gómez Estern, University of Sevilla, Spain
  Adult Literacy and the Construction of Cultural Identity
    José A. Sánchez-Medina, University of Sevilla, Spain
    Maria J. Marco-Macarro, University of Pablo de Olavide, Spain
    Josué Garcia-Amián, University of Sevilla, Spain
  A Comparative Study about the Development of National Identity
  between Catalonia and Andalusia (Spain)
    A. del Valle, University of Girona, Spain
    I. Vila, University of Girona, Spain
    A. Giménez de la Peña, University of Girona, Spain
    S. Perera, University of Girona, Spain
    P. Monreal, University of Girona, Spain
  Histories of National Narratives: A Comparison of Greenland and
  Lithuania
    Andreas Roepstorff, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Narratives, Personal Sense, Chronotope & Identity
    Rauf R. Karakozov, University of Baku, Azerbaijan
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                    Theme 3.1 Theoretical Controversies
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 51                                                   14:30 - 17:30

Activity Theory: Philosophical Resources and Theoretical
Challenges

Chair:       Tim Ingold, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
  Vico as a Precursor of Cultural Psychology
    Giuseppe Mininni, University of Bari, Italy
  Of Baskets and Birds' Nests: Skill and the Construction of Artefacts
    Tim Ingold, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
  Retrieving Philosophical Themes in Vygotsky's Writings -
  Anti-Foundationalism and Pragmatism
    Jan Derry, University of London, United Kingdom
  Culture, Psychic Life and Communication
    Vladislav A. Lektorsky, Russian Academy of Philosophy, Russia
  Discussant
    Bernd Fichtner, University of Siegen, Germany
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                          Theme 2.7 Welfare State
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 52                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Changes in Welfare State Practices and their Psychology - II:
Users and Welfare State Practices

Chair:       Ole Dreier, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  From Clients to Users of Health Care Services: Contradictory Changes
  and Contradictory Reasons
    Ole Dreier, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  The Ironies Paradoxes of Politics and Possibilities: 'Empowering' US
  Behavioral Health Care Recipients While Ending US Welfare as We
  Know it
    David Hakken, State University of New York, USA
  The Emergence and Role of Client Perspectives in and on Cancer
  Treatment
    Hysse B. Forchhammer, County Hospital of Gentofte, Denmark
  Changes in Welfare State Health Practices: Living with Hereditary
  Diseases
    Lotte Huniche, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  Psychotherapy as Social Practice: The Ways of Institutionalization
    Anna B. Fenko, Moscow University, Russia
  Levers of Empowerment for Excluded Persons
    W. de Graaf, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
    G. Hoogenboezem, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
    R. Maier, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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                    Theme 3.1 Theoretical Controversies
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 53                                                   14:30 - 17:30

Extending the Cultural Historical Traditions

Chair: Dorothy Robbins, Central Missouri State University, USA
  The Foundations of Cultural-Historical and Activity Approaches in
  Psychology
    Gennadi G. Kravtsov, Laboratory of Psychology and Pedagogy of
    Education, Russia
  Problems of Fitting Vygotsky Into a Western Perspective
    Dorothy Robbins, Central Missouri State University, USA
  What is Missing in Vygotsky's and Piaget's Works to have a More
  Profound Theory of Activity
    Gérard Vergnaud, CNRS - University of Paris-VIII, France
  Lost--or Merely Domesticated? The Boom in Socio-Historicocultural
  Theory Emphasizes Some Concepts, Overlooks Others
    Mohamed Elhammoumi, USA
  Semiotically Mediated Action as the Unit of Analysis in Socio-Cultural
  Research: A Theoretical and Empirical Approach
    Mercedes Cubero, University of Sevilla, Spain
    Manuel L. de la Mata, University of Sevilla, Spain
    José A. Sánchez-Medina, University of Sevilla, Spain
    Andrés Santamaría, University of Sevilla, Spain
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              Theme 1.4 Activity, Thinking, and Communication
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 54                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Parent-Child Relations in Contemporary Society

Chair: Lars-Christer Hydén, Stockholm University, Sweden
  Theoretical Models to Understand Household Activities: The
  Contribution of the Activity Theory and Everyday Cognition Approach
    Terttu Tuomi-Gröhn, University of Helsinki, Finland
  What is a Home? How the Families Construct a Home with Their
  Everyday Actions?
    Pirjo Korvela, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Parents and Social Workers Talking about New Family Forms and
  Parental Responsibilities
    Lars-Christer Hydén, Stockholm University, Sweden
    Margareta Hydén, Stockholm University, Sweden
  Different Modes of Understanding: The Task of Conceptualizing Single
  Parenthood within the Child Welfare System
    Agnes Andenæs, Norwegian Social Research, Norway
  The Formation of Adult-Child Relationships in Exceptional Care
  Arrangements
    Oddbjørg Skjær Ulvik, University of Oslo, Norway
  Cognitive Processing of Emotional Loss
    Ask Elklit, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    Lise Jind, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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               Theme 2.5 Learning Disabilities and Handicaps
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 55                                                   14:30 - 17:30

Vygotsky in the Classroom

Chair: Sigrun Gudmundsdottir, Norwegian University of Science and
          Technology, Norway
  Traveling from School to Everyday Life to Integrate a Child with Special
  Needs
    Pilar Lacasa, University of Cordoba, Spain
    Carolina Peinado, University of Cordoba, Spain
    Maria Albuquerque, University of Cordoba, Spain
    Sonia Guzman, University of Cordoba, Spain
  A Social Skills Intervention Program for Children at Risk of Developing
  Behavioural Problems
    Annlaug Flem, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
    Norway
    Ragnar Thygesen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
    Norway
    Elin Magnes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
    Harald Valås, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
    Norway
  Remedial Instruction Program for a Child with Learning Disabilities: A
  Case Study
    Ragnheidur Karlsdottir, Norwegian University of Science and
    Technology, Norway
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               Theme 2.5 Learning Disabilities and Handicaps
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Vygotsky in the Classroom

Chair:       Sigrun Gudmundsdottir, Norwegian University of Science and
          Technology, Norway
  Inclusion in Special Education: A Vygotskian Perspective
    Sigrun Gudmundsdottir, Norwegian University of Science and
    Technology, Norway
    Torrill Moen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
    Norway
    Wigdis Dypvik, Trondheim Municipal School District, Norway
  Discussants
    Eugene Matusov, University of Delaware, USA
    Jacquelyn Baker-Sennett, University of British Columbia, Canada
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                 Theme 1.2 Institutions and Organizations
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 56                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Culture and Learning in Educational Organizations

Chair: Andrew Pollard, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  Introduction
    Guy Claxton, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  National Culture, Educational Goals and Pupil Experience of
  Schooling: A Comparative Study
    Marilyn Osborn, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  'Situated Practice', 'Mediated Action', 'Critical Framing' and
  'Transformative Practice' in the Context of Four Rapidly Changing
  Societies
    David Johnson, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  'Playing the System': Pupil Learning and 'Strategic Biographies'
    Andrew Pollard, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  'Every Meaning Will Have its Homecoming Festival': A Mesogenetic
  Approach to Actions of Teaching and Learning in Mundane Classroom
  Events
    Malcolm Reed, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  Tool Kits, Teachers and New Technologies
    Rosamund Sutherland, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  Discussant
    James V. Wertsch, Washington University, USA
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              Theme 1.4 Activity, Thinking, and Communication
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 57                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Family Influence on Socialization and Language/Speech
Acquisition

Chair:       Karin Aronsson, University of Linköping, Sweden
  Parental Ideas about Young Children's Discursive Participation in Two
  Cultures
    Vibeke Grøver Aukrust, University of Oslo, Norway
  Parents' Implicit Theory about Personal Characteristics of Their
  Children: Parental Big Five
    Aleksandar Baucal, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
  Activity and Socioculture
    Karin Junefelt, Stockholm University, Sweden
    Tiia Tulviste, University of Tartu, Estonia
  Socialization through Story-Telling
    Mary van der Riet, Rhodes University, South Africa
  Effects of Narratives on the Speaking about the Action: The Role of
  Family Interactions in Actions Construction and in the Ways of Speaking
  about Them
    Roxane Helena Rodrigues Rojo, Catholic Pontifical University of São
    Paulo, Brazil
  Family Interactions in Two Neighbouring Countries on Each Side of the
  Baltic Sea - Sweden and Estonia
    Tiia Tulviste, University of Tartu, Estonia
    Lennart Hellspong, University of Södertörn, Sweden
    Luule Kants, University of Tartu, Estonia
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 58                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Development of Learning Activity - I: Acquisition of Scientific
Knowledge through Collaborative Practice

Chair:       Ed Elbers, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  Science Literacy in the Making in an Inner-City Youth Program: "They
  Take the Time to Show us How a Plant Grows"
    Jrene Rahm, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
  Collaborative Learning and the Social Construction of Knowledge in the
  Classroom
    Ed Elbers, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  Learning to Participate in a Research Community: Writing Scientific
  Texts in Primary Grade Special Education Classrooms
    Paul F. Conway, Michigan State University, USA
    Carol Sue Englert, Michigan State University, USA
Development of Learning Activity - II: Development of
Theoretical Thinking

Chair:       Ed Elbers, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  Every-Day Knowledge: Does it Use or Ignore in the Process of
  Education?
    Elena Savina, Orel State University, Russia
  The Metacognition Process in Learning Biology and Chemistry
    Elbia Myriam Vazquez, National University of San Luis, Argentina
    Rodolfo Rubén Nieto, National University of San Luis, Argentina
    Monica Laurentina Gatica, National University of San Luis, Argentina
    Maria Cassanitti, National University of San Luis, Argentina
  Computer Artifacts and Mathematical Abstraction
    Baruch Schwarz, Hebrew University, Israel
    Rina Hershkowitz, The Weizmann Institute, Israel
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             Theme 2.2 Social Practice and Cultural Minorities
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 59                                                   14:30 - 17:30

Societal Practice and Cultural Minority Education - II

Chair: Mariane Hedegaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Culture in School and Society: Turkish Children in Danish Schools
    Mariane Hedegaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Transforming of Ethnocultural Tradition in a Modern Context: Context
  for the Personal Development
    Olga Kritskaya, Paraske'va, Russia
  A Problem of Tolerance Development in a Multicultural Society from the
  Cultural-Historical Approach and the Theory of Activity Point of View
    Valentina Pavlenko, Kharkov State University, Ukraine
  Teenager's Cultural Activities: Construction of Classrooms' Cultural
  Environment
    Nata Krylova, Institute of Pedagogical Innovations, Russia
    Marina Kniazeva, Institute of Pedagogical Innovations, Russia
    Timur Astashev, Institute of Pedagogical Innovations, Russia
  Minority/Majority Relationships: An Educational Alternative to Get the
  Empowerment of a Gypsy Community in Barcelona
    José Luis Lalueza, The Autonomous University Barcelona, Spain
    Isabel Crespo, The Autonomous University Barcelona, Spain
    Cristina Pallí, The Autonomous University Barcelona, Spain
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 60                                                   14:30 - 17:30

Culture and Reasoning: Understanding Thought Processes
through Social Practices of Culturally Diverse Groups in
Contemporary Societies

Chair: Elvira Souza Lima, CEPAOS, Brazil
  The Dialectics of Cultural Development
    Marcel Guimarães Lima, University of Illinois, USA
  Constructing a Language for Learning in Classrooms
    Judith Green, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
    Carol Dixon, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  Cultural Experience in Thought Processes: Transforming Teachers'
  Experiences through Use of Diverse Forms of Semiotic Mediation
    Elvira Souza Lima, CEPAOS, Brazil
  A Cultural Tool in Ethno-Historical Perspective: Literacy in Two
  Mexican Villages
    Elsie Rockwell, Centre for Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico
  Discussant
    Vera John-Steiner, University of New Mexico, USA
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                           Special Event
June 9, 1998                                                     Tuesday
Session 61                                                   20:00 - 22:00

In Memory of Vasili V. Davydov (1930-1998)

Chair: Mariane Hedegaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Contributors
    Lioutsia Bertsfai, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
    Joachim Lompscher, University of Potsdam, Germany
    Serena Veggetti, University of Rome 1, Italy
    Vladimir Zinchenko, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
    Kiyoshi Amano, Chuo University, Japan
    Michael Cole, University of California, San Diego, USA
    Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Vitali V. Rubtsov, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
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               Theme 3.2 Challenges to Cultural-Historical
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 62                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Human Agency in Cultural-Historical Approaches: Problems
and Perspectives

Chair:       Anna Stetsenko, University of Bern, Switzerland
  Human Agency: How Much is Explained in Cultural-Historical
  Approach?
    Anna Stetsenko, University of Bern, Switzerland
  Dialogue and the Development of the Agentic Individual: An
  Educational Perspective
    Gordon Wells, University of Toronto, Canada
  The Ecology of Agency
    Allan Costall, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
  Discussant
    Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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                       Theme 2.3 Technology and Work
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 63                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Learning as Boundary Crossing among Communities and
History
Co-Chairs:   Naoki Ueno, National Institute for Educational Research, Japan
          Yuji Moro, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  The Artifacts of Boundary Crossing in Computer Systems Design
    Susanne Bødker, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  When the Center Doesn't Hold: The Importance of Knotworking in
  Organizational Learning
    Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Restoring Activity
    Yuji Moro, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  Organizing Multiple Vision
    Yasuko Kawatoko, Daito Buka University, Japan
  Inscriptions That Organize a Network for Multiple Accountabilities in
  the Practice of Distribution and Exchange
    Naoki Ueno, National Institute for Educational Research, Japan
  Discussants
    Naoki Ueno, National Institute for Educational Research, Japan
    Susan Leigh Star, University of Illinois, USA
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                       Theme 2.3 Technology and Work
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 64                                                   8:30 - 10:30

The Application of Activity Theory to Information Systems

Chair: Helen Hasan, University of Wollongong, Australia
  A Holistic Approach to Executive Information Systems Using Activity
  Theory
    Helen Hasan, University of Wollongong, Australia
  Interactive School Population Modelling Design
    Edward Gould, University of Wollongong, Australia
  Business Process Modelling
    Peter Larkin, University of Wollongong, Australia
  Discussant
    Irina Verenikina, University of Wollongong, Australia
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                    Theme 2.6 Electronic Communication
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 65                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Learning as a Promoter of Change in Complex Systems:
Human Interactive Methods - I

Chair:       Lars-Åke Lindberg, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
  Emerging Collective Metaphysics in Future Work Shops
    Lars-Åke Lindberg, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
  Developmental Work Research in Community Development
    Anne Metsola, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
  Networking as Learning Structures
    Maria Müller, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
  Forum Theatre
    Walter Ruth, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
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                       Theme 2.4 Designing Artifacts
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 66                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Innovation and User Activities

Chair: Reijo Miettinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
  From Laboratory to Society -Problems of Context Transitions
    Reijo Miettinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
  How Clients' Participation Alters Discussion in a Product Development
  Meeting
    Jaakko Virkkunen, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Heli Ahonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
  An Interface of Knowledge between Academia and Industry in Portugal
    Manuel Graca, University of Porto, Portugal
  Two Perspectives on Innovation Processes and Networks
    Janne Lehenkari, University of Helsinki, Finland
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                    Theme 2.6 Electronic Communication
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 67                                                   8:30 - 10:30

The Use of Computer Technology in Informal Education
Communities

Chair:       Eugene Matusov, University of Delaware, USA
  The Fifth Dimension Clearinghouse and Propagation Center
    William E. Blanton, Appalachian State University, USA
    Melanie W. Greene, Appalachian State University, USA
    Erin Simmons, Appalachian State University, USA
  Subjective Nature of Sociocultural Activity: Examples from the
  Developing UCSC UC-Links Project
    Eugene Matusov, University of Delaware, USA
    Cathy Angelillo, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
    Pablo Chavajay, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
  Accommodating Diversity in Activity Systems: The Fifth Dimension as a
  Heterogenerative Artifact
    Honorine Nocon, University of California, San Diego, USA
  Discussant
    Berthel Sutter, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden
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                   Theme 3.3 Defining Units of Analysis
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 68                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Cultural and Historical Dimension of Time

Chair: Jay L. Lemke, City University of New York, USA
  The Order of the Present: Cultural and Individual Forms of Time in
  Autobiographical Narratives
    Jens Brockmeier, OISE/University of Toronto, Canada
  Semiotic Artifacts, Power, and Heterochrony in the Mediation of
  Organizational Activity
    Jay L. Lemke, City University of New York, USA
  Proposal of a New Structural Model for Time Perspective
    Manabu Tsuzuki, Chuo University, Japan
  The Social Construction of Worktime
    Cristina Zucchermaglio, University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
    Alessandra Talamo, University "La Sapienza" Rome, Italy
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 69                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Learning Activity and Development - I

Chair: Joachim Lompscher, University of Potsdam, Germany
  Introduction
    Joachim Lompscher, University of Potsdam, Germany
  Activity Theory Approach to Learning as a Basis for New Didactics
    Nina Talysina, Moscow State Lomonosov University, Russia
  Instruction and Development in Elementary School
    Hartmut Giest, University of Potsdam, Germany
  How the Learning Task is Originated in Cooperative Activity
    Galina Zuckerman, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 70                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Play as a Context for Cultural Learning

Chair: Bert van Oers, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Play as a Cultural Mediator at Age Five to Seven
    Rolf Oerter, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany
  Young Children's Play and Cultural Learning: A Look at Unprivileged
  Populations
    Zilma de Moraes Ramos de Oliveira, University of São Paolo, Brazil
  Argumentation and Pretend Play among Three-Year-Old Children
    Sylvie Rayna, National Institute for Educational Research, France
  Discussant
    Bert van Oers, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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                    Theme 3.1 Theoretical Controversies
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 71                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Marxism and Cultural-Historical Psychology

Chair: Charles W. Tolman, University of Victoria, Canada
  Activity Theory and 'Ideality'
    Peter E. Jones, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
  Marxian Dialectics: Genealogy and Epistemology
    Benny Karpatschof, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  Past, Present, and Future Uses of Activity Theory in Cultural Psychology
    Carl Ratner, Humboldt State University, USA
  Philosophy from the Standpoint of Action: Marx, Macmurray,
  Wittgenstein
    Charles W. Tolman, University of Victoria, Canada
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               Theme 1.3 Changing and Building Institutions
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 72                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Activity Approaches to Teacher's Work

Chair: Arkady Margolis, International College of Education and
             Psychology,
           Russia
  Reflecting on Teaching and Teacher Education Reforms
    Marianne N. Bloch, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  Learning in Action: Learning to Teach as Participatory Appropriation
    Ann Edwards, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
    Lynn Ogden, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
  Changes in the Organization of Teacher Collaboration and Ways to
  Network: A Longitudinal Study of Two Teacher Teams
    Merja Kärkkäinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
  The Formation of Science Teachers: The Ontology of This Social Being
  from the Understanding of his Labor World and his Activity
    Luiz Carlos Nascimento da Rosa, Federal University of Santa Catarina,
    Brazil
    Maria Cécilia Marcondes de Moraes, Federal University of Santa
    Catarina, Brazil
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 73                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Construction of Identities within Institutions

Chair: Lars Fant, Stockholm University, Sweden
  Identity Construction in a Religious Community - A Sociocultural
  Perspective
    Victoria M.L. Yew, University of Sydney, Australia
    Richard A. Walker, University of Sydney, Australia
  Three Stories From a Multimedia Company
    Jonna Kangasoja, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Disrupting Institutional Discourses and Forging Hybrid Identities
  through Critical Social Practice
    George Kamberelis, Purdue University, USA
    Lenora de la Luna, Purdue University, USA
    Deborah Gardiner, Elementary School, USA
  The Negotiation of Academic Identity
    Lars Fant, Stockholm University, Sweden
    Karin Junefelt, Stockholm University, Sweden
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             Theme 2.2 Social Practice and Cultural Minorities
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 74                                                   8:30 - 10:30

Societal Practice and Cultural Minority Education - I

Chair: Esteban Diaz, California State University, San Bernardino, USA
  Acquisition of Socio-Moral, Emotional, and Intellectual Competencies by
  Russian Schoolchildren in Schools of Helsinki City
    Andrei Podolskij, Moscow State University, Russia
    Olga Idobaeva, Moscow State University, Russia
    Tatiana Podolskaia, Moscow State University, Russia
    Jarkko Hautamäki, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Zones of Negative Development: Analysis of Classroom Activities and the
  Academic Performance of Bilingual, Mexican American Students in the
  United States
    Esteban Diaz, California State University, San Bernardino, USA
    Jose Hernandez, California State University, USA
  Academic Failure among Primeiro Grau Children in Southern Brazil:
  The Understanding of Processes
    Magda F. Damiani, University of London, United Kingdom
  Social Development and Learning: The Origin of Inequality Among
  Countries and Possible Solutions
    Checa Liebana, University of Granada, Spain
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 75                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Historical Systems of Consciousness: Confronting Cultural
Identities

Chair:       Pablo del Rio Pereda, University of Salamanca, Spain
  Comparing Japanese and Chinese Cultural Architectures of Mind
    Dora Shu-fang Dien, California State University, Hayward, USA
  Children's Personal Identity Built upon Success or Failure at School: A
  View from Activity Functional Systems
    Andrea Olmos, The National Autonomous University of Mexico,
    Mexico
  Cultural Mind and Cultural Identity
    Amelia Alvarez, University of Salamanca, Spain
    Pablo del Rio Pereda, University of Salamanca, Spain
  The Feature of Voices of TV Commercials/News as a Privileged Cultural
  Tool for the Formation of Cognition and Their Appropriation among
  TV Viewers
    Nobumoto Tajima, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
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                       Theme 2.3 Technology and Work
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 76                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Knowledge Ecologies: Formal and Non-formal Mediation of
Activity
Co-Chairs: Susan Leigh Star, University of Illinois, USA
           Lucy Suchman, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA
  Computational Workspace Coordination: Design-in-Use of
  Collaborative Publishing Services for Computer-Mediated Collaborative
  Publishing
    Mark Spasser, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA
  Learning at Work and Working to Learn: An Activity Approach to
  Studying a "Learning Organization"
    Brenda McPhail, University of Toronto, Canada
    Andrew Clement, University of Toronto, Canada
  Understanding Materiality, Ambiguity and Mediation
    Susan Leigh Star, University of Illinois, USA
  Embodied Practices of Engineering Work
    Lucy Suchman, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA
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               Theme 3.2 Challenges to Cultural-Historical
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 77                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Communities of Learners and Instructors

Chair: Berthel Sutter, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden
  Cultural-Historical Learning-Instruction Theories and Real Practice: To
  Bridge a Gap
    Andrei Podolskij, Moscow State University, Russia
  Teaching Practice as a Challenge to Activity Theory
    Elina Lampert Shepel, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
    Leslie R. Williams, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
  Privileging Community in Activity Theory
    Honorine Nocon, University of California, San Diego, USA
  Situated Instructions - at Work, at School and in the Fifth Dimension
    Berthel Sutter, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden
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                    Theme 2.6 Electronic Communication
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 78                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Learning as a Promoter of Change in Complex Systems:
Human Interactive Methods - II

Chair:       Lars-Åke Lindberg, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
  Safety Culture and Implementation of the ISM Code
    Bengt Erik Stenmark, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
  Multimedia Production as Challenge on Organizational Learning - An
  Application of Activity Theory in a Longitudinal Study of Organizational
  Change
    Kirsi Koistinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Understanding Informal Learning in High-Performance Work
  Environments
    Michael Cohen, Arc Consulting, USA
    Boaz Mourad, Arc Consulting, USA
    Ann Demarais, Arc Consulting, USA
    David Shirley, Arc Consulting, USA
    Elana Frankel, Arc Consulting, USA
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                       Theme 2.4 Designing Artifacts
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 79                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Users and Other Mediating Artifacts in Design Practice

Chair: Peter Coughlan, Nissan Design International, USA
  The User as Mediational Artifact in Product Development
    Peter Coughlan, Nissan Design International, USA
  Researching Users in Software Design
    Unalome Pim Techamuanvivit, Netscape Communications, USA
  Hit Squads and Bug Meisters: Discovering New Artifacts to Facilitate
  Design of Workflow Processes
    Shilpa V. Shukla, University of California, Irvine, USA
    Bonnie Nardi, AT&T Labs West, USA
  Discussant
    Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
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                    Theme 2.6 Electronic Communication
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 80                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Investigation of the Introduction of Technology in Secondary
and Tertiary Education

Chair:       Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland
  Electronic Communication and New Study Practices: How are Students
  Constructing Them?
    Jean-Francois Perret, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  A Matter of Style: The Dialectic between Technological Affordances and
  Performance Style
    Catalina Laserna, Harvard University, USA
  From Classrooms for Computers to Computers for Classrooms
    William Bradley, Ryokoku University, Japan
    Fumitoshi Kato, Ryukoku University, Japan
  A Case of Finding Good Questions. The Health Informatics Distance
  Education as Tool for Transformations
    Tia Hansen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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                       Theme 2.3 Technology and Work
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 81                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Coordination and Communication in Complex Work Settings

Chair: Jessica Kindred, City University Graduate Center, USA
  Organization and Activity
    Erik Axel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  'Artful Integrations': Discarded Artifacts and the Work of Articulation in
  Overlapping Communities of Practice of Commercial Refrigeration
  Technicians
    Philip H. Henning, Pennsylvania State University, USA
  Authorship and Technology in the Workplace
    Jessica Kindred, City University Graduate Center, USA
  The Changing Collaboration between a Finnish and an American
  Research Group - Closing the Doors in the Discussion
    Eveliina Saari, University of Helsinki, Finland
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 82                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Learning Activity and Development - II

Chair: Joachim Lompscher, University of Potsdam, Germany
  Establishing the Seriousness of Learning
    Airi Hautamäki, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Jarkko Hautamäki, University of Helsinki, Finland
  The Construction of Concepts of Space, Time and Motion in the
  Perspective of the General Theory of Activity - Contributions from
  Cultural Historical Psychology
    Paulo Rômulo de O. Frota, Federal University of Piaui, Brazil
  Modern Art and Expansive Learning: Aspects of Their Interrelations
  from an Activity Theoretical Point of View
    Maria Benites, University of Siegen, Brazil
    Bernd Fichtner, University of Siegen, Germany
  The Influence of Older Siblings on Sociomoral Development: Piaget or
  Vygotsky?
    Wolfgang Edelstein, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and
    Education, Germany
    Christine Schmid, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and
    Education, Germany
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 83                                                   11:00 - 13:00

The Use of Imagination in the Development of Small Children's
Learning Activity

Chair:       Ludmila El'koninova, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
  Reconstructing and Creating Stories on Breast Feeding: An Experience
  with Schoolchildren
    Carolina Sampaio Barreto, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
  A Program to Develop Directed-Play of Preschool Children
    Ludmila El'koninova, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
  Conditions for Creative Development of 5-6 Year-old Children
    Valentina Isayeva, Moscow State University, Russia
  When Small Children Play - How Adults Dramatize and Children
  Create Meaning
    Gunilla Lindqvist, University of Karlstad, Sweden
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                   Theme 3.3 Defining Units of Analysis
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 84                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Problems in Defining the Units of Analysis in Psychology: From
Simple Animal Life to Human Cultural Life
Co-Chairs:   Niels Engelsted, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
          Jens Mammen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  In Search of Psyche
    Niels Engelsted, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  The Psyche as 'res extensa'
    Jens Mammen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Survival Strategies of Knowing Systems: Living the Relation between
  Ecological Structure and Environmental Texture
    Ole Elstrup Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  A Definition of Human Activity
    Benny Karpatschof, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 85                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Investigating Children's Development in Social Context

Chair: William R. Penuel, San Francisco Unified School District, USA
  The Construction of Context: Methodological Challenges in Studies of
  Human Development
    Mette Gulbrandsen, University of Oslo, Norway
  Artwork as a Means to Understand Private World's of Experience: A
  Semantic Analysis of a Transmediational Link
    Julia M. Matuga, Indiana University, USA
  Discourse as Social Action: Constructing Sexual Orientation Identity in
  a School Setting
    Luiz Paolo Moita-Lopes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  "I Don't Like to Live Nowhere but Here": The Shelter as Mediator of
  U.S. Homeless Youth's Place-Identity
    William R. Penuel, San Francisco Unified School District, USA
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              Theme 1.4 Activity, Thinking, and Communication
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 86                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Cultural and Institutional Aspects of Empowerment and
Coercion in Identity Construction

Chair:       Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon, Free University Berlin, Germany
  Identity as Narration
    Michael Bamberg, Clark University, USA
    Emily Abbey, Clark University, USA
    Patrick C. Dauis, Clark University, USA
  Does the 'Multiple Self' Need an Identity Concept?
    Sang-Chin Choi, Chung-Ang University, 221, South Korea
    Chung-Woon Kim, Free University Berlin, Germany
  Stories about Identities: The Tension between Self-Articulation and
  Self-Regulation
    Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon, Free University Berlin, Germany
    Dimitris D. Papadopoulos, Free University Berlin, Germany
  A Cultural-Historical Approach to Identity Formation: Re-examining
  Erikson's Model and Cultural/Ethnic Identity Formation
    Pedro R. Portes, University of Louisville, USA
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                 Theme 1.2 Institutions and Organizations
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 87                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Learners in Contexts within Institutions

Chair: Reijo Miettinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
  The Chameleonic Learner: The Effect of Multiple Contexts on Students'
  Perceptions and Experiences of Learning
    Roseanna Bourke, Massey University, New Zealand
    Janet Burns, Massey University, New Zealand
  Learning Clinical Reasoning in Two Different Contexts: What are the
  Implications for the Students?
    Sten R. Ludvigsen, University of Oslo, Norway
  Constructing Zones of Proximal Development in a Network of Learning
    Seppo Peisa, Helsinki School of Vocational Education, Finland
    Reijo Miettinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
  The Role of the Institution School and its Semiotic Peculiarity in
  Forming Motivation to Learn
    Annemieke Zwaans, DDS, The Netherlands
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 88                                                   11:00 - 13:00

Means of Communication and Learning: A Comparison of
Vygotsky and Peirce

Chair:       Sven Horsmann, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  A Three-Dimensional Model of Communicative Activity Applied to a
  Hypertext Learning Environment
    Sven Horsmann, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  Peirce's Attempts to Design an Elementary Arithmetic Textbook in the
  Context of his Philosophical Conception
    Mircea Radu, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  Using Signs in Abductive Reasoning: Peirce and the Problem of
  Creative Thinking and Acting
    Michael Hoffmann, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  Vygotsky and Peirce in Raeithel's Approach to Semiotic Self-Regulation
    Falk Seeger, University of Bielefeld, Germany
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              Theme 1.4 Activity, Thinking, and Communication
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 89                                                   14:30 - 17:30

Internalization as Appropriation

Chair: James V. Wertsch, Washington University, USA
  Internalization and Human Consciousness
    Vladimir Zinchenko, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
  The Dialectics of Internalization and Externalization in Human Activity
    Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
  The (Im)proper and the (Im)pertinent in the Appropriation of Social
  Practices
    Ana Luiza Bustamente Smolka, State University of Campinas, Brazil
    Angel Pino, State University of Campinas, Brazil
  Appropriating Internalization and Appropriation
    James V. Wertsch, Washington University, USA
  Semiotic Mediation and Internalization: The Role of Reference in
  Instructional Actions
    Andrés Santamaría, University of Sevilla, Spain
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                       Theme 2.3 Technology and Work
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 90                                                   14:30 - 17:30

Developmental Work Research: New Insights and Findings

Chair: Ritva Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Institutional Reform and Technological Innovation: Case Studies of
  Chinese Work Organizations
    Jianzhong Hong, South China Normal University, China
  Developing Sideways: The Boundary Crossing Laboratory as a Method
  for Reorganizing the Interaction of Interdependent Activity Systems
    Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Ritva Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
  From Individual Troubles to Common Solutions
    Jaakko Virkkunen, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Rules, Tool and Power: A Few Comments on Learning/Production
  Debate
    Kari Toikka, University of Helsinki, Finland
  What is Good Journalism? Different Perspectives about the Object of
  Work
    Merja Helle, University of Helsinki, Finland
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              Theme 1.4 Activity, Thinking, and Communication
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 91                                                   14:30 - 18:00

Psycholinguistics as Psychology: Speech Activity Revisited

Chair: Aleksei A. Leontiev, The Leo Tolstoy Institute, Russia
  Consciousness, Cooperation and Communication
    Timo Järvilehto, University of Oulu, Finland
    Nikolai Veresov, University of Oulu, Finland
  Psycholinguistics, World Image, Personality
    Aleksei A. Leontiev, The Leo Tolstoy Institute, Russia
  Vygotsky, Whorf and the Apprehension of Spatial Concepts in a Zapotec
  Community
    Kristine Jensen de López, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Non-macro Language Acquisition in Perspective of Historical
  Development
    Shan Xingyuan, University of Ottawa, Canada
  Speech and the Modern Mind: Vygotsky for the 21st Century
    William Frawley, University of Delaware, USA
  Discussant
    Chris Sinha, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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                       Theme 2.4 Designing Artifacts
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 92                                                   14:30 - 17:45

Mediating Cultural Experience

Chair: Klaus B. Bærentsen, Bang & Olufsen, Denmark
  Explorations in Artifact Space
    Daniel Pargman, Linköping University, Sweden
  Understanding Design Artefacts
    Olav W. Bertelsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Electronic Mediation of Cultural Experience
    Klaus B. Bærentsen, Bang & Olufsen, Denmark
  The Activity Checklist: Orienting 'Novel' Interface Design
    Catriona Macauley, Napier University, United Kingdom
  Hearing Mishearings: Digital Hearing Instruments and the
  Management of Conversational Practice of Hearing Impaired Business
  Executives
    Philip H. Henning, Pennsylvania State University, USA
  Discussant
    Ellen Christiansen, University of Aalborg, Denmark
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               Theme 1.3 Changing and Building Institutions
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 93                                                   14:30 - 17:30

Activity and Education

Chair: Vitali V. Rubtsov, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
  Activity Approach in Organizing of Developmentally-Aimed Learning
  Environments
    Arkady Margolis, International College of Education and Psychology,
    Russia
    Vitali V. Rubtsov, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
  Activity Theory Analysis of Project Follow-Through and the Debates
  Surrounding
    Gary Price, University of Wisconsin, USA
  Light Pickles and Heavy Mustard: Horizontal Development Among
  Students Negotiating How to Learn in a Production Activity
    King Beach, Michigan State University,, USA
    Sapna Vyas, Michigan State University, USA
  Appropriation of Life Styles in a Community of Practice
    Karsten Hundeide, University of Oslo, Norway
  Learning, Motivation and Identity in a Technical College Confronted
  with the Arrival of New Technologies
    Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
    Jean-Francois Perret, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
    Claude Kaiser, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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                 Theme 1.2 Institutions and Organizations
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 94                                                   14:30 - 17:00

Societal Analysis in Relation to Schooling

Chair: Seth Chaiklin, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  The Social Construction of Culture: Participazione as the "Moral
  Goods" of Contemporary Italy
    Rebecca S. New, University of New Hampshire, USA
  The Historical Cultural Psychology in Santa Catarina - The Activity of
  Teaching in the Public School
    Marcos Lourenço Herter, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
    Paulo Hentz, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
  What the Pedagogical Plan of the City of Florianópolis Reveals? A
  Study of the Pedagogical Plan of Activity in Cultural Historical
  Psychology
    Verena Wiggers, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
  Discussant
    Seth Chaiklin, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 95                                                   14:30 - 17:30

Learning Activity and Development - III

Chair: Joachim Lompscher, University of Potsdam, Germany
  Development of Psychological Thinking in Educational Teaching
    Irina Musina, Moscow State Agro-Engineering University, Russia
  Teaching Theoretical Knowledge: Experiments in the New School
    Lioutsia Bertsfai, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
  Towards an Adapted Method and Tools for the Analysis of Verbal
  Interactions between African Adult Trainees and French Trainers for
  Assessing Preliminary Processes of Knowledge Acquisition
    Regis Maubrey, University of Paris VIII, France
  ZPD as Actualising Subject's Internal Potentiality in Multi-Dimensional
  Peers Interactions (the Analysis of the Co-Operation of Homogenous
  Peers Groups with Different Levels of Operation Reversibility)
    Ewa Rzechowska, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
  Mathematical Cognition in the Classroom - A Cultural Historical
  Approach
    Ademir Damazio, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
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               Theme 2.5 Learning Disabilities and Handicaps
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 96                                                   14:30 - 17:30

On the Problems of Literacy Education for Children and
Children with Learning Disabilities

Chair:       Kiyoshi Amano, Chuo University, Japan
  The Activity of Teaching How to Read and Write: The Acquisition of
  Writing in the Cultural Historical Perspective
    Maria Aparecida Lapa de Aguiar, Federal University of Santa Catarina,
    Brazil
  The Problems of Development of Teaching Programs of Literacy for
  Children with Learning Disabilities
    Kiyoshi Amano, Chuo University, Japan
  Sharing Literacy Practices as a Bridge between Home and School
    Pilar Lacasa, University of Cordoba, Spain
    Amalia Reina, University of Cordoba, Spain
  Family Discourse: A Sociocultural Perspective on Shared Book Reading
  with Young Children with Language Disabilities
    Judith Vander Woude, Calvin College, USA
  Discussant
    Michael Cole, University of California, San Diego, USA
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              Theme 1.4 Activity, Thinking, and Communication
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 97                                                   14:30 - 17:30

Thinking Scientifically: Mediational Tools and Communicative
Practices in Schools

Chair:       Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, University of Washington, USA
  Developing Intellectual Communities in Elementary Science
    Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, University of Washington, USA
    Keiko Kawasaki, University of Washington, USA
  Students' Difficulties in Learning and Interpreting Scientific Models
    Eve Kikas, University of Tartu, Estonia
  Themes, Genres and Approaches: Turning Points in an Episode from a
  Science Classroom
    Eduardo Fluery Mortimer, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
    Andrea Horta Machado, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
    Ana Luiza Bustamente Smolka, State University of Campinas, Brazil
  Using Cultural Tools to Guide Scientific Thinking
    Fran Hagstrom, University of Houston, USA
  Discussant
    Tiia Tulviste, University of Tartu, Estonia
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                 Theme 1.2 Institutions and Organizations
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 98                                                   14:30 - 17:00

Towards Mutual Understanding in the Classroom
Co-Chairs:
             Jacques A.M. Carpay, Free University Amsterdam, The
             Netherlands
          Gordon Wells, University of Toronto, Canada
  In Defence of the Pedagogy of Mutuality
    Jacques A.M. Carpay, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  In Search for a Definition of Intersubjectivity for a Collaborative
  Approach to Teaching
    Eugene Matusov, University of Delaware, USA
  On Knowing and Understanding in the Classroom
    Gordon Wells, University of Toronto, Canada
  Discussant
    R. Rommetveit, University of Oslo, Norway
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               Theme 1.3 Changing and Building Institutions
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 99                                                   14:30 - 17:30

Postmodernism's Challenge to Reality: Implications for Activity
Theory

Chair:       Lois Holzman, East Side Institute, USA
  Narratives, Stories, Reality and Activity
    Joyce Dattner, West Coast Center for Social Therapy, USA
  Where is the Material World in Postmodern Analysis?
    Joe Glick, City University of New York, USA
  Performing our Way from Psychology to Culture
    Lois Holzman, East Side Institute, USA
  Cultural-Historical Theory and Postmodern Social Contents
    Gordana Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
  Cultures of Reflection in the Context of Postmodern Human Action
    Elina Lampert Shepel, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
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                 Theme 1.1 Learning, Motivation, Identity
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 100                                                    14:30 - 17:45

Mediated Action and Constitution of Identity

Chair: Juan-Daniel Ramírez, University of Sevilla, Spain
  The Symbolic Mediation of Identity
    Urs Fuhrer, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
  The Collectivistic and Individualistic Dimension in the Constitution of
  Identity. The Role of Play and Conflict in Peer Interaction in Dutch and
  Andalusian Pre-Schoolers
    Paul Goudena, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
    José A. Sánchez-Medina, University of Sevilla, Spain
  History and National Identity: Styles of Argumentation about History as
  a Resource for the Justification of National Identity
    Alberto Rosa, The Autonomous University Madrid, Spain
    Juan A. Huertas, The Autonomous University Madrid, Spain
    Florentino Blanco, The Autonomous University Madrid, Spain
  The Constitution of Identity from the Social Linguistics Perspective:
  Studies with Indigenous Population in Argentina
    Isabel Requejo, The National University of Tucuman, Argentina
  Culturally Mediated Learning and the Development of Self-Regulation
  by Survivors of Child Abuse
    Ruth Miltenburg, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Elly Singer, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Aggressive Routines and Narrative Interpretation Strategies in
  Adolescents
    Andrea Smorti, University of Florence, Italy
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               Theme 1.3 Changing and Building Institutions
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 101                                                    14:30 - 17:30

The Meaning of Work

Chair: Annette Løw Aboulafia, Roskilde University Centre, Denmark
  Units of Analysis in Working Life
    Annette Løw Aboulafia, Roskilde University Centre, Denmark
  System Contradictions, Coping and Worker Well-Being in a Nursing
  Home
    Jorma Mäkitalo, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Marita Kornonen, Merikoski Rehabiltation and Research Center, Finland
    Juhani Palonen, Merikoski Rehabiltation and Research Center, Finland
  Work-Related Well-Being as Part of the Contextual Transformation of
  the Work
    Tarja Kantola, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Kirsti Launis, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
    Anna-Liisa Niemelä, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
  Zone of Proximal Development and Work-Related Well-Being
    Kirsti Launis, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
    Anna-Liisa Niemelä, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
    Tarja Kantola, University of Helsinki, Finland
  The Work-Related Well-Being and the Haste at Work
    Anna-Liisa Niemelä, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
    Kirsti Launis, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
    Tarja Kantola, University of Helsinki, Finland
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               Theme 2.5 Learning Disabilities and Handicaps
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 102                                                    14:30 - 17:30

The Social-Cultural Analysis and Remediation of Disability

Chair: Stefano Taddei, University of Siena, Italy
  Constructing Compensatory Roundabout Paths: The Role of
  Socio-Cultural Environments in the Cognitive Development of the
  Physically Disabled
    Lúcia Willadino Braga, SARAH Network of Hospitals of the Locomotor
    Systems, Brazil
  Learning Difficulties and Developing of Learning Activity
    Natalia Bastun, Kostiuk Institute of Psychology, Ukraine
    Nicolas Bastun, Kostiuk Institute of Psychology, Ukraine
    Veniamin Litovsky, Kostiuk Institute of Psychology, Ukraine
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               Theme 2.5 Learning Disabilities and Handicaps
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
The Social-Cultural Analysis and Remediation of Disability

Chair:       Stefano Taddei, University of Siena, Italy
  The Formation Method in Psychodiagnostic of Children of Different
  Socio-Cultural Levels
    Yuri Solovieva, Moscow State University, Russia
    L. Quintanar Rojas, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    R. López, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    A. López, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    L. Rodriguez, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    N. Trejo, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    M. Chávez, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    E. Filio, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    D. Flores, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    L. Flores, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    M. Galicia, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    P. Jiménez, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    A. Mejorada, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    M. Orozco, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    J. Palma, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    F. Rentería, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    N. Villegas, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
    R. Zurita, The Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
  Differential Neuropsychology of Ontogenesis and Learning Capabilities
    Y.V. Mikadze, Moscow State Lomonosov University, Russia
  A Healthy Scaffolding: Activity Theory as a Potential Framework for
  Cardiac Rehabilitation
    Stefano Taddei, University of Siena, Italy
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                   Theme 2.1 Social Practice and Gender
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 103                                                    14:30 - 17:00

Gendered Life Modes and Differences

Chair: Harry Daniels, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
  The Gendering of Social Practices in Special Needs Education
    Harry Daniels, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
    Valerie Hey, University of London, United Kingdom
    Diana Leonard, University of London, United Kingdom
    Marjorie Smith, University of London, United Kingdom
  Economic Restructuring and Social Change: Their Impact on Cuban
  Women
    Norma Vasallo, University of Havana, Cuba
  Gender Aspects in Values of School Students
    Ludmila V. Popova, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia
  Gender Differences and Internet Usage in Russia
    Olga Arestova, Moscow State University, Russia
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                             Special Event
June 10, 1998                                                  Wednesday
Session 104                                                    20:00 - 22:00

Performance of a Lifetime

Chair: Lois Holzman, East Side Institute, USA
  Participants
    Lois Holzman, East Side Institute, USA
    Joyce Dattner, West Coast Center for Social Therapy, USA
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                            Keynote Lecture
June 11, 1998                                                   Thursday
Session 105                                                    8:30 - 12:00

Keynote Lectures

Chair: Seth Chaiklin, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Socio-Cultural and Feminist Theory: Mutuality and Relevance
    Vera John-Steiner, University of New Mexico, USA
  Activity as Explanatory Principle in Cultural Psychology
    Peeter Tulviste, University of Tartu, Estonia
  Coffee Break -- 30 minutes
  The Cultural Psychology of Self Construction
    Jerome Bruner, New York University, USA
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                             Invited Panel
June 11, 1998                                                   Thursday
Session 106                                                    14:00 - 17:30

Education and Development

Chair: Luis Moll, University of Arizona, USA
  Contributors
    Jerome Bruner, New York University, USA
    Fernando González Rey, University of Havana, Cuba
    Alberto Rosa, The Autonomous University Madrid, Spain
    Vitali V. Rubtsov, Russian Academy of Education, Russia
    Anna Stetsenko, University of Bern, Switzerland
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                             Closing Session
June 11, 1998                                                   Thursday
Session 107                                                    17:30 - 18:00

Closing of the Congress

Chair: Mariane Hedegaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Greetings from the Next President of the ISCRAT Congress
  Closing Remarks from the President of the Congress
    Mariane Hedegaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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