Professor Harry Daniels lecture series
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Victoria University's College of Education presents a lecture series of three lectures with Professor Harry Daniels from the University of Oxford.
Professor Harry Daniels is Professor of Education at the University of Oxford. Prior to that he was Director of The Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research at the University of Bath. He has also held the position of Professor of Educational Psychology and Special Educational Needs at the University of Birmingham for 9 years.
Professor Daniels draws on post Vygotskian and Bernsteinian theory to study processes of marginalization, exclusion and collaboration. Harry is the author of Vygotsky and Research, Vygotsky and Pedagogy, and editor of Vygotsky and Sociology, An Introduction to Vygotsky and Charting the agenda: Educational activity after Vygotsky (Psychology Press). He edited The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky (Cambridge University Press) with James V Wertsch and Michael Cole.
He is presenting two lectures in this lecture series.
Public lecture - Mediation: The challenge of researching the invisible
Monday 6 October, 2pm - 4pm
Victoria University, St Albans campus, Building 9, Room 9.101.
It has often been claimed that the notion of mediation lies at the heart of Vygotsky's contribution to social science. However developments of his account of the social formation of mind have tended to have been empirically constrained by limitations in attempts to capture aspects of the 'social' which lie beyond the interactional. Harry will elaborate on the keynote he delivered at the International Society of Cultural Activity Research (ISCAR) in September 2014.
Seminar - Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT): An open seminar and panel discussion
Tuesday 7 October, 9am - 11am
Victoria University, City Flinders campus, 300 Flinders Street Melbourne, Room FS11.10.
CHAT is a Vygotskian concept. CHAT adds new theoretical and methodological tools to thinking. CHAT, and its related concept, Activity theory (Engestrom), add conceptual thinking to the use of tools, power, rules and community at institutional and individual levels. Contradictions and how to work through them, within and across different systems of activity, frame and enter into teacher educator work.
An invited CHAT expert panel, from Melbourne, will elaborate and expand on their use (or otherwise) of CHAT theory and methodology. Panel members include our own Professor Marie Brennan, Associate Professor Joce Nuttall (ACU) and Associate Professor Nikolai Veresov (Monash University). This seminar gives you the opportunity to meet and network with experts from Melbourne in using these exciting theoretical and methodological tools.
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