Twenty-Eighth Annual Symposium Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development June 11-13, 1998, Chicago, Illinois

Program Overview

Thursday, June 11

5:00 - 7:30	Board of Directors Meeting Wednesday, June 10, 1998
7:30 - 4:00	Registration (Lower Lobby)
10:00 - 4:00	Book Exhibit (LaSalle II)
9:10 - 9:30	Opening Remarks (LaSalle I) Michael Chandler, President, Jean Piaget Society James Byrnes, Eric Amsel, Co-Organizers, 1998 Symposium
9:30 - 10:45	Plenary Session 1 (LaSalle I) Katherine Nelson, City University of New York, Graduate School Developing and Using a Social Symbolic System
10:45 - 12:00	Paper Session 1: Conceptual Learning (State I) Paper Session 2: Theoretical Issues (State II)
10:45 - 12:15	Invited Symposium 1: Language and Theory of Mind (LaSalle I)
12:15 - 1:30	Lunch (LaSalle II) Lunch is included as part of the registration fee
1:30 - 2:45	Plenary Session 2: (LaSalle I) Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University Relational Thinking and Relational Language
2:45 - 4:00	Paper Session 3: Literacy and Narratives (State I) Paper Session 4: Social Influences on Cognition (State II)
2:45 - 4:15	Invited Symposium 2: Contemporary Trends in Scientific Methodology: Assessing the Development of Language and Meaning (LaSalle I)
4:15 - 5:30	Paper Session 5: Moral Reasoning (State I) Paper Session 6: Reasoning and Memory (State II) Discussion Session 1: Current Status of Vygotsky's Proposals on Private Speech, and Where to Turn Next (Huron)
6:15 - 7:15	Cocktails (LaSalle II)

Program Overview

Friday, June 12

8:30 - 4:00	Registration (Lower Lobby)
10:00 - 4:00	Book Exhibit (LaSalle II)
8:15 - 9:30	Paper Session 7 Math Learning (State I)
8:15 - 9:45	Symposium 1: Morality in the Real World: Theory and Practice, Cognition and Affect (LaSalle I) Symposium 2: The Psychology of Our Discontent (State I)
9:45 - 11:00	Plenary Session III (LaSalle I) David Olson, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/UT What Writing Does to the Mind
11:00 - 12:15	Poster Session 1 (LaSalle I)
12:15 - 1:30	Lunch
1:30 - 2:45	Plenary Session IV: (LaSalle I) Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago From Hand to Thought: Gestural Communication in Deaf and Hearing Children
2:45 - 4:00	Paper Session 8: Social Understanding (State I)
2:45 - 4:15	Invited Symposium 3: The Inter-related Development of Inscriptions and Conceptual Understanding (LaSalle I) Symposium 3: Development of Representation in Middle Childhood (State II)
4:15 - 5:45	Invited Symposium 4: The Weft of Words: Discourse, Narrative, and Transformation (LaSalle I) Symposium 4: The Development of Logical Reasoning Performance: New twists on old themes (State I) Symposium 5: The Influence of Literacy on the Development of Memory and Metalinguistic Knowledge (State II)
5:45 - 6:30	Membership Meeting & Cocktails (LaSalle II)

Program Overview

Saturday, June 13

8:00 - 9:00	Registration (Lower Lobby)
10:00 - 4:00	Book Exhibit (LaSalle II)
8:15 - 9:30	Paper Session 9 Theoretical Issues II (State I)
8:15 - 9:45	Symposium 6: Interaction, Communication, and Meaning: The Pragmatic Dimension of Language (State II) Symposium 7: Dual Representation and the Development of Symbol Use (LaSalle I)
9:45 - 11:00	Plenary Session V: (LaSalle II) Colette Daiute, City University of New York Graduate School Symbol and Subjectivity: Insights from Studies of Written Language
11:00 - 12:15	Poster Session 2 (LaSalle II)
11:30 - 1:30	Board of Directors Meeting
12:15 - 1:30	Lunch
1:30 - 2:45	Paper Session 10: Language (State I) Discussion Session 2: Teaching Piaget (State II)
1:30 - 3:00	Invited Symposium 5: Giving Vision to Personal and Societal Understanding: Children Communicating through Drawing (LaSalle I)
3:00 - 4:30	Invited Symposium 6: Constructivist Approaches to Literacy Instruction: What Some Teachers Have Learned (LaSalle I) Symposium 8: Cognition, Causal Mechanisms, and Goals: Children's Understanding of Goal-Directed Behavior (State I) Symposium 9: Composition, Representation, and the Grasp of Musical Consciousness (State II)
4:30 - 5:30	Dialogue with the Plenary Speakers (LaSalle I & II)

Program Committee

James Byrnes, Chair
Celia Brownell Richard De Lisi Karen Horobin Melanie Killen Anita Meehan David Moshman P. Karen Murphy	Peter Pufall Judith E. Sims-Knight Robert Ricco Karl Rosengren Ellin Scholnick John Waggoner Barbara Wasik

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