CALL FOR PAPERS - Methodologies and Practices for Approaching Learning as a Social Phenomenon, Luxembourg, Dec., 2008

[Gudrun Ziegler]

> Apologies for cross-postings, thank you for your interest.
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> Call for papers
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> DICA-lab within the Unit for Socio-Cultural Research on Learning and  
> Development, University of Luxembourg invites researchers and  
> practitioners, who focus on learning and development from social and  
> activity-driven perspectives, to submit abstracts to the  
> international conference
> “Methodologies and Practices for Approaching Learning as a Social
> Phenomenon Inside and Outside of School”.
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> The international conference, which is kindly sponsored by Fonds  
> National de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR), takes place at the  
> University of Luxembourg, campus Walferdange December 10th -12th 2008.
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> Since the 1990s, a growing amount of research has adopted socio- 
> cultural and/or interactional approaches to describe and analyze  
> learning and development. These approaches contrast previous  
> research, which has been primarily (i) conducted from a  
> psychological/psycholinguistic approach, and (ii) focused on  
> learning and development as exclusively a matter for the  
> individual('s mind). As opposed to this view, more socially based  
> studies argue that learning is intrinsically (i) social in nature,  
> (ii) situated in a particular local context, and (iii) does not only  
> occur in formal settings.
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> The conference focuses on formal as well as informal learning. Of  
> particular relevance is the inclusion of visual, or “multimodal”,  
> aspects of language, and as such the conference will discuss  
> benefits and challenges of including multimodal and activity-bound  
> aspects for the analysis of learning and development.
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> The following scholars will present keynote lectures:
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> ·      Gabriele Pallotti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
> ·      Donald Carroll, Shikoku Gakuin University
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> ·      Pilar Lacasa, University of Alcalá
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> ·      Catherine E. Brouwer, University of Southern Denmark
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> Thematically, papers and presentations should address one or more of  
> the following domains
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> ·      Plurilingual learning in and through interaction
> ·      Multimodal interaction as analytic tool for learning or  
> multimodal learning?
> ·      Education in plurilingual societies – social perspectives of  
> development
> ·      Classroom interaction – social interaction and multimodality
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> Theoretically and methodologically, the conference invites  
> researchers from a broader range of fields to participate. These are  
> sociocultural research, activity theory and an array of  
> interactional approaches.
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> Two presentation/submission formats have been designed for allowing  
> exchanges and the discussion across frameworks: Paper sessions and  
> round poster sessions, bringing together genuine work from both  
> theoretical and applied research perspectives.
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> Abstracts for presentations (in English) will undergo a blind double  
> peer-review and should be sent to learning08 at multi-learn.org by  
> October 1st. Pre-submission, consisting of name, affiliation and  
> title of paper proposal, should be sent by September 15th.  
> Notification of accepted abstracts will be sent out shortly after  
> the submission deadline. Bilingual (including English as one  
> presentational mode) presentations are encouraged.
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> Scientific committee
> ·      Charles Max, University of Luxembourg
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> ·      Gudrun Ziegler, University of Luxembourg
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> ·      Johannes Wagner, University of Southern Denmark
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> ·      John Hellermann, University of Portland
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> ·      Kristian Mortensen, University of Luxembourg
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> Local organizing committee – DICA-lab (UL)
> ·      Kristian Mortensen (main responsible organizer)
> ·      Anne Meyer
> ·      Gudrun Ziegler
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> Please direct questions to kristian.mortensen at uni.lu
> Looking forward to seeing you in Luxembourg!
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> Join in for the next multi-lingual, multi-modal learning performance
> - multi-SPACES '08 - VJ-ing Night @ Rockhal -
> (http://www.cr.rockhal.lu/fr/agenda/2008/10/multi-SPACES_08/index.php)
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> Ass.-Professor Dr. Gudrun Ziegler
> Faculty of Language & Literature, Humanities, Arts & Education
> Send to: University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, Route de  
> Diekrich, L-7201 Luxembourg
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> Find out more about the Master - Learning & Development in  
> Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts (MA multi-LEARN):
> http://multi-learn.uni.lu
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> Vient de paraître:
> Zarate, G.; Lévy, D.; Kramsch, C. (eds.): Précis du plurilinguisme  
> et du pluriculturalisme. Paris, EAC 2008.
> http://precis.berkeley.edu/
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