Dear *|FNAME|*,
We hope that this late-October email finds you well. We wanted to reach out to you with a few updates and reminders.
- The submission deadline for proposals to the annual JPS meeting is December 4th.
- If you are an Emerging Scholar, the Pete Pufall Travel Award is available to defray travel costs to the conference.
- We are seeking nominations for a variety of awards that the society offers.
- The University of Victoria has set up a scholarship for Indigenous students in Chris Lalonde's name.
- Membership needs to be renewed annually, renew your membership before January 1st to receive a discount.
Call for Proposals
Please submit your proposal by December 4th for the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society in Toronto, which will be held May 30th-June 1st. More information about the conference and how to submit is included in the email below. As a reminder, proposals do not be related to the conference theme. Submissions exploring any topic related to developmental science are welcome and encouraged! If you are in the private sector doing applied work in the field, an educator exploring constructivist practices, a policy maker doing work to bring about systems change to support youth development, we would love to hear more about your work. Please consider submitting a proposal today!
Pete Pufall Emerging Scholars Student Travel Award
We are pleased to offer two travel awards of $550 each, plus free conference registration, to two Emerging Scholars. These awards are made possible by a generous gift of the Pufall Family. Awards are granted to the highest ranking proposals from Emerging Scholars, with at least one being from a low/middle income country. To be considered for the award, please nominate yourself when you submit your presentation proposal for the annual meeting. Awards will be announced prior to the conference, and monies will be received by awardees at the annual meeting. Emerging Scholars receiving the award, and their presentations, will be highlighted in the program. To be eligible, the first author (presenting author) must be a graduate student or post-doctoral fellow. Don't forget to indicate your interest in the award when you submit your proposal!
JPS Awards
The Society is proud to offer several awards in addition to the travel awards for emerging scholars. Please consider nominating yourself or someone else today for any of the following awards. Please be mindful of nomination deadlines and submission protocols listed in the descriptions.
Jean Piaget Society Doctoral Dissertation Prize
The Awards Committee reminds all of you who have just completed, are about to complete (or who mentor someone who is about to complete) a dissertation conducted within the Piagetian tradition that, thanks to the late Society founder Jeanette McCarthy Gallagher and her husband Frank Gallagher, the Society has since 2015 sponsored The
Jean Piaget Society Doctoral Dissertation Prize.
The Jean Piaget Society Dissertation Prize consists of a very generous $2000, plus meeting reasonable travel expenses for the Prize recipient to present an address based upon their dissertation at the Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society.
Any doctoral dissertation completed within the preceding 24 months from the submission date originating from any country, from psychology or related fields that concerns the topic of knowledge and its development will be considered. Empirical research in cognitive or social cognitive development of children and adolescents, rigorous demonstrations of constructivist educational methods, evolutionary theory as it relates to development are some examples of the topics that may be submitted. The quality of the work will be paramount: the work need not have originated from the point of view of Piagetian theory, but the winning submission should address how the work furthers the ongoing study of the interdependence of knowledge construction and development.
The deadline for submission is the same date as the date of submission of proposals for the annual meeting, (December 4, 2023), and proceed in tandem with conference acceptance. Because of time constraints, applicants must submit to the conference simultaneously and separately. Complete eligibility, past winners and submission rules can be found at piaget.org/awards.
Questions concerning the process should be directed to Brian Cox, co-chair of the Prize Committee, at brian.d.cox@hofstra.edu. Finally, I would ask you to spread the word far and wide! Applicants are not limited to current members of the Society, but of course, we hope that they take this opportunity to become new and perhaps lifelong members of JPS!
Early Career Award in Developmental Science
Nominations due December 1st
The Jean Piaget Society (JPS) seeks nominations for a recently established
Early Career Award in Developmental Science. Recognizing individuals’ different career trajectories, nominees must be within 10 years of receiving their Ph.D. Nominations should include a CV and a nomination letter of 2-4 pages describing the nominee’s work, including its coherence and broader impact on the field, as well as a statement regarding how the nominee’s work connects to the mission and aims of JPS. The letter also should describe the nominee’s involvement in the Jean Piaget Society (e.g., membership in the Society and attendance and presentations at annual meetings). Either self-nominations or nominations by others familiar with the nominee’s work are acceptable. Nominations should be sent to Brian D. Cox at brian.d.cox@hofstra.edu. The winner will be invited to attend and present at talk at the annual conference.
Complete eligibility, past winners and submission rules can be found at piaget.org/awards.
Other awards are given at the discretion of the Board of Directors of the Jean Piaget Society:
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Developmental Science.
Nominations due December 1st
Please nominate senior scholars who have made distinguished contributions to Developmental Science and the Jean Piaget Society. Follow the instructions for nomination on piaget.org/awards. The winner(s) will be invited to attend and present at talk at the annual conference. For information, contact Stuart Marcovitch, President and Co-chair of the Awards Committee: S_MARCOV@uncg.edu
The Chris Lalonde Exceptional Service Award
This award is given to individuals who have provided an exceptional level of service to the Jean Piaget Society that goes beyond the normal duties of a Board Member or Society Officer. The first winner of this award, Christopher Lalonde, provides the template through his decades of service to the JPS as Vice President of Information Technology and his long-standing role in creating the JPS annual meeting program.
Nominations for this award can be sent to the Awards Committee Chair at any time. The nomination should clearly specify the nature of the exceptional service to the JPS that was provided by the candidate. Because of the exceptional nature of this award, it is not given annually. For information, contact Stuart Marcovitch, President and Co-chair of the Awards Committee: S_MARCOV@uncg.edu
Chris Lalonde Indigenous Wellbeing Award
Beyond his exceptional service to the Society, Chris Lalonde was also an exceptional scholar and educator. In honor of this, the University of Victoria has created a student award in his name. The Chris Lalonde Indigenous Wellbeing Award will go to Indigenous undergraduate students in the Faculty of Social Sciences, with preference for students majoring in Psychology. The award is $1000 each year. To learn more about the award, and/ or donate to it, please
visit the webpage for the award.
Renew Your Membership Today!
As a reminder, membership in the Jean Piaget Society needs to be renewed annually. Please consider renewing your membership, or becoming a member, today. If you renew your membership before the 1st of the year you will receive a discount on your membership dues. Membership dues vary for regular members, students, emeriti, and those from low/ middle income countries. Please visit our
membership site to learn more and renew or become a member today!
Beyond Dualism: Embodiment Perspectives on Development
Organized by Dor Abrahamson and Jeffrey Lockman
Margaret Moulson, Local Organizer
The conference venue will be in Toronto.
Submission Deadline: December 4th, 2023
Conference Theme:
The 2024 conference theme will examine Embodiment as an epistemological proposal that the mind is formatively shaped by and for physical interaction with the environment and that higher cognition should be theorized from that developmental premise. Specifically, the conference will showcase cutting-edge scholarship exploring how cognitive activity, such as judgment, language, and problem-solving, draws on perceptuomotor neural substrates that evolve ontogenetically through active engagement in socio-cultural material contexts. Theories of embodiment could perturb the fundaments of cognitive science, because by carving human experience at its phenomenological and ecological joints they upend traditional epistemological and ontological dichotomies, such as brain–body, internal–external, self–other, imaginary–actual, or concrete–abstract.
What might this mean for theories of cognitive development and, correspondingly, for educational research and practice? And what of individuals with diverse sensory, motor, and cognitive capacities? As we evaluate the potential impact of embodiment on developmental and educational research, we find ourselves in need of new instruments that enable us to track humans’ multimodal interactions with artifacts and each other, and coordinate among neural, physiological, sensorial, clinical, phenomenological, and ethnographic data to build coherent integrated accounts of teaching and learning processes. Collectively, the invited program will address these issues from infancy to adulthood, bridging behavioral, cross-cultural, ethnographic, kinematic, and neural methods.
Plenary Speakers and Topics:
Dan Hutto (Wollongong University) - “Educating Enactive Minds”
Cristine Legare (UT Austin) - “The Development and Diversity of Cumulative Cultural Learning”
Blandine Bril (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) – “Culture as Rhythm: Bodies Artifacts and the Emergent Coordination of Enacted Practice”
Catherine S. Tamis–LeMonda (NYU) – “Embodied and Embedded Learning: Feedback Loops in Child Action, Caregiver Response, and the Environmental Context”
Anna Shvarts (Utrecht University) – “Embodying Culture Enculturating Bodies: An Example from Mathematics Teaching/Learning “
Program Proposal Guidelines
Submission Deadline: December 4th, 2023
Proposals need not address the conference theme—we welcome submissions on any topic in developmental science.
Proposal Submission Information
We are using
on-line submission forms. You will receive an email with all submission information listed upon submission. The form remains accessible so that updating is possible until the deadline. Full bibliographic references are not required, and tables and figures are not supported in the submission process. Proposals will be accepted in English only.
General Submission Procedure
Submission deadline is December 4th. Program Committee decisions will be sent in February 2024. Provisional scheduling of accepted submissions will be available in March 2024. The full program will be available in Guidebook on April 15th, 2024. Presenters of all accepted submissions (i.e., first authors) must register for the conference by April 29th, 2024, to be included in the program. The final program will be available in Guidebook by mid May.
Paper Presentations (15–18 minutes) may be focused on either empirical findings or theoretical analysis. The program review committee will select individual submissions and schedule a series of Paper Sessions that include 4 papers on similar topics. These sessions will have a moderator appointed by the program committee. A paper proposal should include a 250-word abstract (for publication in the conference program) and a max 1500-word summary (for the program review committee).
Poster Presentations may be focused on either empirical findings or theoretical analysis. The sessions are organized around broad themes derived from the posters selected for each session. Posters are mounted for display in a high-traffic area for the entire day of the session, but presenting authors need only attend their poster during the official session. A poster proposal must include a 250-word abstract (for publication in the conference program), and a max 1000-word summary (for the program review committee).
Symposium Sessions (90 minutes) should describe 4 presentations organized around a single topic, or 3 presentations and a named discussant who will comment on the presented papers. We assume the submitter is the organizer and the chair. Symposium sessions will have a named organizer, and may include a named discussant who will comment on the presented papers. A symposium proposal should include a 400-word abstract (for publication in the conference program), and the organizer/submitter selects the email addresses of each participating presenter, names and titles of individual presentations will be retrieved from their uploaded contribution.
Symposium Contributions Proposals All the presenters in a symposium are required to upload their own title, 250-word abstracts (for publication in the conference program), and a 1000-word summary (for the program review committee). They must also indicate the symposium they are contributing to.
Discussion Sessions (90 minutes) are intended to provide an interactive venue for exploring ideas that bear on the development of knowledge, broadly conceived. They may be formatted as debates, panels, or organized discussions; and may focus on any well-defined topic. Submissions must include a 400-word abstract (for publication in the conference program), and a 1000-word summary (for the program review committee) that describes the topic and structure of the session and the role of each of the discussion leaders.
Discussion Contributions Proposals All the discussion leaders in a symposium are required to upload a brief 250-word bio/memo (for publication in the conference program). They must also indicate the discussion they are contributing to.
