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Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium

Culture, Thought & Development

June 19-21, 1997, Santa Monica, California


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Jean Piaget Society Homepage Program Overview Thursday, June 20 Hotel & Transportation
Genetic Epistemologist Homepage Program Committee Friday, June 20 Map to Hotel
Membership Application List of Presenters Saturday, June 21 Instructions to Presenters
Program Overview Thursday, June 19

5:00 - 7:30 Board of Directors Meeting (Concorde Room, 9th Floor)
Wednesday, June 18, 1997

7:30 - 4:00 Registration (Penthouse Foyer, 10th Floor)
10:00 - 4:00 Book Exhibit (Penthouse Foyer, 10th Floor)
9:00 - 9:15 Opening Remarks (Penthouse Ballroom, 10th Floor) Michael Chandler, President, Jean Piaget Society
9:15 - 10:30 Plenary Session 1 (Penthouse Ballroom, 10th Floor) Andrea A. diSessa, University of California, Berkeley: Does the mind know the difference between the physical and social worlds?
10:30 - 11:00 Refreshments (Club Lounge, Mezzanine Level)
11:00 - 12:00 Tribute for Barbel Inhelder (Penthouse Ballroom, 10th Floor)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch* (Chattery Lounge and Poolside, lobby level) *Included as part of the registration fee
1:00 - 2:50 Invited Symposium 1: Culture and the Development of Mathematical Thinking (Santa Monica Room, 10th Floor)
1:00 - 2:30 Symposium 1: Resonant Epistemological Perspectives: Piaget, Dewey, Vygotsky, and Bateson (Penthouse Suite, 10th Floor)

Symposium 2: Moral Development and Culture: The role of moral values, social construals, and social structure (Marina Room, 10th Floor)

Paper Session 1: Reasoning (Concorde Room, 9th Floor)

2:00 - 3:30 Poster Session 1 Preview (Bayview Court and Lobby, Mezzanine Level)
3:00 - 4:50 Invited Symposium 2: Are Sociocultural and Constructivist Agendas Compatible? (Santa Monica Room, 10th Floor)
3:00 - 4:30 Symposium 3: Reconsidering Planning: Multiple psychological and contextual perspectives (Marina Room, 10th Floor)

Paper Session 2: Social Influences on Cognitive Development (Penthouse Suite, 10th Floor)

Paper Session 3: Play and Narrative (Concorde Room, 9th Floor)

3:30 - 4:30 Poster Session 1: Authors Present (Bayview Court and Lobby, Mezzanine)
5:00 - 6:15 Plenary Session II (Penthouse Ballroom, 10th Floor) Merlin Donald, Queen's University: Culture, Biology, and the Origins of Human Cognition
6:15 - 7:15 Cocktail Reception (Poolside, Lobby Level)
Program Overview Friday, June 20
8:30 - 4:00 Registration (Penthouse Foyer, 10th Floor)
10:00 - 4:00 Book Exhibit (Penthouse Foyer, 10th Floor)
9:00 - 10:15 Plenary Session III (Penthouse Ballroom, 10th Floor) Joseph Margolis, Temple University: Would You Say Developmental Psychology was a Science?: The Cultural Paradigms of Mind
10:00 - 12:00 Poster Session 2 Preview (Bayview Court and Lobby, Mezzanine )
10:20 - 11:10 Reminiscence of Hermine Sinclair (Penthouse Ballroom, 10th Floor)

Session on Grants (Penthouse Suite, 10th Floor)

10:30 - 11:15 Refreshments (Club Lounge, Mezzanine)
11:15 - 1:00 Invited Symposium 3: Identity Development and Sociocultural Diversity: Cultural and Transcultural Constraints on the Construction of the Self (Santa Monica Room, 10th Floor)
11:15 - 12:45 Symposium 4: Children's Everyday Activities: Cultural Opportunities for Cognitive Development (Marina Room. 10th Floor)

Paper Session 4: Representational Change (Penthouse Suite, 10th Floor)

Paper Session 5: Theoretical Issues (Concorde Room, 9th Floor)

12:00 - 1:00 Poster Session 2: Authors Present (Bayview Court and Lobby, Mezzanine)
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch* (Chattery Lounge and Poolside, lobby level) *Included as part of the registration fee
2:00 - 3:50 Invited Symposium IV: Language and Thought: Putting the World into Words and Gestures (Santa Monica Room, 10th Floor)
2:00 - 3:30 Symposium 5: The Development of Resilience: Cognitive and Relational Processes in the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood (Marina Room, 10th Floor)

Symposium 6: James Mark Baldwin's Conception of the Self in Society: A Critical and Historical Analysis (Concorde Room, 9th Floor)

Symposium 7: Developmental Interfaces Between Person and Society (Penthouse Suite, 10th floor)

3:30 - 4:30 Refreshments (Club Lounge)
4:30 - 5:45 Plenary Session IV (Penthouse Ballroom, 10th Floor) Patricia Greenfield, University of California, Los Angeles: Culture and Universals: Integrating Social and Cognitive Development
5.45 - 7:00 Cocktail Reception (Poolside, lobby level)
Program Overview Saturday, June 21
8:00 - 9:00 Registration (Penthouse Foyer, 10th Floor)
10:00 - 4:00 Book Exhibit (Penthouse Foyer, 10th Floor)
9:00 - 10:15 Plenary Session V (Penthouse Ballroom, 10th Floor) Claudia Strauss, Duke University: Rethinking Culture: The Case of U.S. Individualism
9:45 - 10:45 Poster Session 3 Preview (Bayview Court and Lobby, Mezzanine)
10:15 - 12:05 Invited Symposium 5: Cultural Processes in Education (Santa Monica Room, 10th Floor)
10:15 - 11:45 Symposium 8: Sociology versus Sociogenesis of Science (Marina Room, 10th Floor)

Symposium 9: Dynamics of meaningÐmaking in interpersonal communication (Penthouse Suite, 10th Floor)

Workshop: Introduction to Rasch Measurement that Focuses on the Similarities between Rasch and Piagetian Constructs and Assumptions (Concorde Room, 9th Floor)

10:45 - 11:45 Poster Session 3 (Bayview Court and Lobby, Mezzanine)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch* (Chattery Lounge and Poolside, lobby level) *Included as part of the registration fee
1:00 - 2:15 Plenary Session VI (Penthouse Ballroom, 10th floor) Melissa Bowerman, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen: Culture and Language Development
2:30 - 3:30 Membership Meeting (Penthouse Ballroom, 10th floor)
3:30 - 5:30 Board of Directors Meeting (Concorde room, 9th floor)
Program Committee
James Byrnes, Chair
Marvin Berkowitz
Celia Brownell
Robert Campbell
Richard De Lisi
Karen Horobin
Daniel Hart
Charles Helwig
William J. Hoyer
Melanie Killen
Marta Laupa
Philip Lewin
Marc Lewis
Cynthia Lightfoot
Henry Markovits
Michael Mascolo
Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi
Jack Meacham
Anita Meehan
Constance Milbrath
Patricia Miller
David Moshman
Sandra Nettles
Judith Newman
Sandy Pipp-Siegel
Peter Pufall
Judith E. Sims-Knight
Robert Ricco
Karl Rosengren
Ellin Scholnick
Leslie Smith
Mark B. Tappan
Marie Tisak
Mary Trepanier-Street
Barry Wadsworth
John Waggoner
Shawn Ward

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