Previous OSAT Reading Groups and Seminars

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OSAT Training Course: Trinity Term 2009

All sessions were led by Anne Edwards and Geoff Hayward

Session One April 30th: The background to Vygotsky’s ideas

John Hardcastle (in press) Vygotsky’s Enlightenment Precursors Educational Review

Session Two May 7th: Vygotsky’s intellectual contributions

AN Leont’ev On Vygotsky’s Creative development. In R. Rieber & J. Wollock (Eds) The Collected Works of LS Vygotsky Vol 3: Problems of the theory and history of psychology New York: Plenum Press

Session Three May 21st Bakhtin and Wertsch

For an introduction to Bakhtin’s work see: The Bakhtin Circle http://www.iep.utm.edu/b/bakhtin.htm

For his influence on Jim Wertsch see Wertsch, J.V. (1991) Voices of the Mind: a sociocultural approach to mediated action

Texts discussed in the session were:

Jim Wertsch (1997) Collective memory: issues from a sociohistorical perspective in M. Cole et al. (Eds) Mind Culture and Activity. Cambridge CUP

Jim Wertsch (2007) Mediation. In H. Daniels et al. The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky. Cambridge: CUP.

Session Four May 26th: The implications for undertaking research

The reading was:

Arne Raeithel (1996) On the ethnography of co-operative work. In Y. Engeström & D. Middleton (Eds) Cognition and Communication at Work. Cambridge CUP.

Reading Groups

November 4th 2009

‘Putting Culture in the Middle’ (1996) in Cole, M. Cultural Psychology, Cambridge Mass: The Belnap Press of Harvard University Press.

‘Towards a Third Revolution in Psychology: from inner mental representations to dialogically-structured social practices’ (2001) by John Shotter, in D. Bakhurst and S. Shanker (eds.) Jerome Bruner: Language Culture Self, London: Sage.

October 22nd 2009

'Culture is Ordinary' (1958), in N. Mackenzie (ed.)Convictions, London: MacGibbon & Lee (reprinted in Williams, R. (1989) Resources of Hope, London: Verso).

'Culture'(1976), in Williams, R., Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society, London: Fontana Press.

11th March 2009

Vygotsky and Teachers

Lev Vygotsky Psychology and the Teacher

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28th January 2009

Vasily V. Davydov and Stephen T. Kerr (1995)
The Influence of L. S. Vygotsky on Education Theory, Research, and Practice

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30th October 2008

This session focused on the Mehan chapter with the second paper as background.

Mehan. H. (2003) Beneath the skin and between the ears: a case study in the politics of representation in S. Chaiklin and J. Lave (Eds.) Understanding Practice: Perspectives on activity and context.  Cambridge CUP (available on request from Research Secretary)

and

Gutierrez, K. & Rogoff, B. (2003) Cultural ways of learning: Individual Traits or Repertoires of Practice.  Educational Researcher 32 (5) 19-25

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June - July 2008

"The Greeno Debate Continued"

(The papers were read in order of appearance below)

Anderson, Reder and Simon (1996) Situated Learning and Education

Greeno (1997) On Claims That Answer the Wrong Questions

Anderson, Reder and Simon (1997) Situative versus Cogntive Perspectives: Form versus substance

Cobb and Bowers (1999) Cognitive and Situated Learning Perspectives in Theory and in Practice

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10th June 2008

'Cognitive Science and Situated Cognition: Paradigm Wars or Two Sides of the Same Coin?

James G. Greeno (1989) Perspective on Thinking

The Situativity of Knowing, Learning and Research, James G. Greeno and the Middle School Mathematics Through Applications Project Group,at the Institute for Research on Learning and Stanford University

Chapter 7, Chapter 8 and the ’36 Learning Principles’ appendix of Gee, J.P. (2003) What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan

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30 January 2008

Anne Edwards, 'An Interesting Resemblance: Vygotsky, Mead and American Pragmatism'

H. Daniels, M. Cole and J. Wertsch (Eds,) (2007) The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky, Cambridge: CUP

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30 January 2008

Beach, K. (2003) Consequential transitions: a developmental view of knowledge propagation through social organisation, in Tuomi-Grohn, T. & Engestrom, Y. (Eds) Between School and Work: new perspectives on transfer and boundary crossing, London, Pergamon.

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31 October 2007

Holland, D. and Lachicotte, W. (2007) Vygotsky, Mead and the New Understandings of Identity, in H. Daniels et al. (Eds) The Cambrdige Companion to Vygotsky, Cambridge, CUP.

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22nd May 2007

Bakhurst, D. Ilyenkov on Aesthetics: Realism, Imagination, and the End of Art.

To access further suggested reading provided by Russell Francis; download the overview here.

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1st May 2007

Blackler, F. Knowledge and the Theory of Organizations: Organizations as Activity Systems and the Reframing of Management.

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7th March 2007

Saljo, R. Educational conversations and information technological revolutions in human history.

Hjorne, E. and Saljo, R. "There is something about Julia, but what?" - Symptoms, catagories and the process of invoking ADHD in the Swedish School: A case study.

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13th February 2007

Engeström, Y. (2005). Knotworking to create collaborative intentionality capital in fluid organizational fields. In M. M. Beyerlein, S. T. Beyerlein & F. A. Kennedy (Eds.), Collaborative capital: Creating intangible value. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Edwards, A.(in press) "Agency and Activity Theory: from the systemic to the relational" in H. Daniels, K. Guttierez and A. Sannino (Eds.) Learning and Expanding with Activity Theory Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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24th January 2007

Mehan,H. (1993) Beneath the skin and between the ears: a case study in the politics of representation in S. Chailklin & J.Lave (Eds) Understanding practice: perspectives on activity and context.

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22nd November 2006

Dreier, O. Personal Trjectories of Participation across Contexts of Social Practice, Outlines Vol. 1(1): p 5-32.

Seminars

October 29th 2009  

['Introduction to Vygotsky' followed by a Research Seminar]

Anne Edwards and Viv Ellis

Introducing Vygotsky 

Speaker: Dr Susan Edwards, Monash Universit (OSAT Visiting Research Fellow)

A leading activity: towards a cultural historical perspective on play and assessment in early childhood education

18th June 2009

Discussion group on:

The Unit of Analysis in Cultural Historical Research.

The following paper from the launch of the OSAT Centre was pre-reading for this session

Download Roger Säljö's Keynote address

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21st May 2009

Speaker: Anna Touloumakos (SKOPE and OSAT DPhil Student)

'Don't let me be misunderstood': Communication beyond the limitations of a skills analysis

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7th May 2009

Speaker: Stefanie Schmachtel (OSAT visiting doctoral student)

How does Cultural Historical Activity Theory help with the analysis of collective learning in regional governance processes?

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26th March 2009

Speaker: Dr Paul Thompson, University of Nottingham

Extended Classroom Talk as a Medium of Learning

An extensive research literature attests to the value of children engaging in a spoken dialogue as a medium of learning, and many researchers have called for more dialogic instructional practices. However, this turn to the dialogic, away from the monologic, may have an unintended consequence of decreasing students' opportunities to speak at length about learning. This presentation explored various ways in which such sustained classroom talk might be theorised.

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19th March 2009

Emotion, Motivation and Action: the actor's craft according to Konstantin Stanislavski and Lev Vygotsky

This seminar introduced the work of Russian theatre practitioner Stanislavski and demonstrated how some of his ideas can be applied in practice. Vygotsky cites Stanislavski in his own writing and both were discussed in relation to early 20th Century Moscow, in which they both lived and worked.

Download Hannah's supporting presentation here

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26th February 2009

Dr Seth Chaiklin, Reader in the Department of Education, University of Bath

Practice Developing Research, exemplified with the development of teaching practice in a Danish nursing college

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4th December 2008

Speaker: Professor Mariane Hedegaard

Different ways of thinking about motives in play-learning

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26th November 2008

OSAT and E-Learning

Speaker: Dr Ingvill Ramussen, Intermedia Centre, University of Oslo.

TWEAK - Tweaking Wikis for Education and Advancement of Knowledge

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14th November 2008

Day Seminar on CHAT and researching learning and young people with Copenhagen colleagues

• Anne Edwards' Paper
• Mariane Hedegaard's Paper
• Morten Nissen's Paper

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13th November 2008

Speaker: Geoff Hayward

Can we solve the problem of disaffected young people?  A CHAT perspective

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7th November 2008

Speakers: Anne Edwards, Viv Ellis and others

An Introduction to Vygotskian ideas for research and PGCE students

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6th November 2008

OSAT roundtable meeting with Copenhagen research students

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23rd October 2008

OSAT Research roundtable for new and existing members

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4th June 2008

Speaker: Mihaela Lupu

Work in progress: Learning in intern-mentor meetings

download the ppt here

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15th May 2008

Speaker: Russell Francis

Learning through serious play in virtually figured worlds

download the ppt here

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22nd January 2008

Speaker: Dr Kyoko Murakami, University of Bath

How can discourse analysis contribute to sociocultural research?

download the ppt in pdf by Dr Kyoko Murakamu

download Key References

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Anton Havnes, Oslo University College

Team-talk and teacher learning. A case study of teacher teams as learning communities

Gill Boag-Munroe

Ways of Understanding the Work of School Mentors in ITE from an Activity Theoretical Perspective

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download the bibliography to key methodological texts

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Some considerations on doing ethnography for a socio-cultural informed study in secondary school

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23rd October 2007

Narrative, memory and professional practices in Brazilian education: a cultural historical perspective

download the abstract

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30th May 2007

Dr Jan Derry, University of London, Institute of Education

Abstraction, Representation and Vygotsky on Scientific Concepts  

download the ppt by Dr Jan Derry

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23rd May 2007

Professor Peter Smagorinsky. University of Georgia

Can Teacher Education change how Teachers Teach?

download the abstract

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1st February 2007

Dr Adam Lefstein, Academic Fellow in Pedagogy and Classroom Intervention, University of Oxford

Changing teacher practice through the National Teacher Stratagy: A Microinteractional perspective on policy enactment.

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15th January 2007

Professor Yrjo Engestrom, University of Helsinki

Studying Learning and Development as Expansive Phenomena 

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9th November 2006

Professor Neil Mercer, Cambridge University

The Seeds of Time:Why Classroom Dialogue Requires a Temporal Analysis

download the presentation. (ppt.)

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6th November 2006

Professor Harry Daniels, University of Bath

Strengths and Limitations of Activity Theory in Educational Research

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1st November 2006

Dr Åsa Makitalo, Gothenburg University

Evidencing professional knowledge in talk

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25th October 2006

Professor Alex Kozulin, International Centre for the Enhancement of Learning Potential, Jerusalem.

Why is Vygotsky important and what is his legacy to education?

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OSAT Papers

OSAT Launch

14th March 2007. OUDES, 15 Norham Gardens, Oxford OX2 6PY

Download Roger Säljö's Keynote address

Symposium presented at the 2007 AERA Conference in Chicago April 9 - 13, 2007

Professional Learning for Negotiating Expertise Across Professional Boundaries.

download Anne Edwards Paper

download David Guile's Paper

download Ioanna Kinti and Geoff Hayward's Paper

Papers at the EARLI Conference in Budapest August 28 - September 1, 2007

download Anne Edwards' Paper

download Viv Ellis's Paper

Papers and Presentations at the First UK and Ireland ISCAR (International Society for Cultural and Activity Research) Meeting, Bath, 17-18 July 2008

Hopwood N (2008) What, and how, do doctoral students learn from engaging in academic work?

download Nick's poster