CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE

in a series

Re-discovering Vygotsky
Socio-historical-cultural approach to development and education
Reconstruction and historical-methodological tropes

 Symposium 1

Developmental approach to education according to Lev S. Vygotsky
From theory to changes in practice

19-20 March 2018

About the symposium

The original socio-historical-cultural theory of development by Lev S. Vygotsky inspires researchers all over the world to undertake numerous theoretical and methodological studies, initiates new research and development projects and is an invitation to solve (research) problems of contemporary education.
The heuristic potential of Vygotsky’s theory is invaluable. More and more often one can hear about „undiscovered Vygotsky”, the tropes he left, problems he signalled…
The originality of Lev S. Vygotsky’s ideas and his unusual research intuition creates critical space for discussion and for exchange of experiences with regard to the attempts at searching hidden and deeper meanings of metacognitive conceptualizations of processes.
The Department of Didactics and Culture of Education Studies, Laboratory for Educational Change – Centre for Research on Learning and Development in the Institute of Education, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, invites scholars to study the original texts and to take up the challenge of searching for „undiscovered problems” present in the cognitively sophisticated theory proposed by Lev S. Vygotsky, to read the source texts in the context of contemporary culture of education.

The invitation to the symposium was accepted by:

Galina  Zuckerman (Tsukerman), Professor in Educational Psychology; Laboratory of Psychological Development of Elementary Schoolchildren, Psychological Institute, Russian Academy of Education

Pentti Hakkarainen, Professor of the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology at Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, founder Play Research Laboratory “Silmu” in 2002 at the University of Oulu.

Milda Bredykite, Associate Professor of the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology and a coordinator of research and teaching activities of the Research Laboratory of Play at Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences.

Thor-André Skrefsrud, Professor, Head of Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Education and Natural Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

Thor Ola Engen, Professor Emeritus of Education at the Faculty of Education at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN University).

The deadline for abstracts and registration forms is 25 January 2018. The symposium will involve the following topics:

1) Categories and paradigms (analysis, re-construction of concepts, uncovering meanings)
Key discussion topics:
Original categories present in Vygotsky’s theory, their comprehension and „reverberation” in contemporary culture of education (in particular with regard to the  educational activity of a child in the early stages of schooling):
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), educational activities of a child, Higher
Mental Functions, scientific vs. spontaneous/colloquial concepts, language as a mediator between the learner and his development, psychological tools, mediating, psychological crisis and their sense, self-regulation, perezhivanie

2) Developmental approach to education
Key discussion topics:
Creating supporting environment for learning, the concept of the child, „sensitive teacher”, scaffolding, developing independent thinking, learning, activities of the child (from activities with support to independent activities), designing developing learning

3. The original methodology by Vygotsky
Key discussion topics:
Research into the dynamic developmental processes. Genetic experiment, designing a teaching experiment/ double stimulation method. CHAT-based research projects.

Forms of the Symposium presentations:
1. Plenary session
2. Thematic section
3. Round table
4. Poster session

Publication: Accepted papers will be published in a monograph in English or in Problems in Early Education journal PWE (14 points)
The Editorial Board has the right to refuse publication of abstracts which do not correspond to the problems of the conference, as well as those that do not meet the requirements of this CfP and the requirements for scientific publications.

The languages of the conference are English and Polish.

Participants are required to:

• Fill in the registration form
• Send an abstract
• Pay conference fee

Symposium is organized by:
Department of Didactics and Culture of Education Studies,
Laboratory for Educational Change – Centre for Research on Learning and Development

The main venue of the Symposium is:
University Library
3 Szymanowskiego St.
Bydgoszcz