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


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”.

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.

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.

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.


The following scholars will present keynote lectures:

·      Gabriele Pallotti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

·      Donald Carroll, Shikoku Gakuin University

·      Pilar Lacasa, University of Alcalá

·      Reinhold Schmitt, University of Mannheim

·      Catherine E. Brouwer, University of Southern Denmark


Thematically, papers and presentations should address one or more of  
the following domains

·      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

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.

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.

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.


Scientific committee
·      Charles Max, University of Luxembourg

·      Gudrun Ziegler, University of Luxembourg

·      Johannes Wagner, University of Southern Denmark

·      John Hellermann, University of Portland

·      Kristian Mortensen, University of Luxembourg



Local organizing committee – DICA-lab (UL)
·      Kristian Mortensen (main responsible organizer)
·      Anne Meyer
·      Gudrun Ziegler



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)

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

Find out more about the Master - Learning & Development in  
Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts (MA multi-LEARN):
http://multi-learn.uni.lu

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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