Welcome to SIG10 and SIG21 2010
It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the meeting of SIG10 and SIG21 Moving through cultures of learning that will take place in Utrecht, September 2 and 3, 2010.
Objective and scopeThe aim of the meeting is to provide a forum for the exchange of research findings and new ideas on the theme of Moving through cultures of learning. Teaching and learning take place in particular language and symbolic contexts. Classrooms are characterized by the use of particular discursive, symbolic and social tools, which teachers and pupils use in their everyday interactions. The focus in this meeting is on the transitions students, teachers and parents experience, when they move from one context to another, such as from school to the home situation, from one discursive context to another, from one language to another. Migrant students, in particular, face the transition between cultural contexts on a daily basis and have to adapt to the demands of various cultural contexts. The issues of transition between situations with different cultural rules and perspectives are central in this meeting of SIG 10 and SIG 21. This theme provides ample space for discussion both for the separate SIGs and for the SIGs jointly. It also allows discussions on a broad scale from microgenetic studies of classroom interaction to issues of educational policy.
About SIG10The special interest group "Social interaction in learning and instruction" (SIG 10) is devoted to the study of teaching-learning processes, understood as socially shared and culturally situated phenomena. It groups a wide range of approaches, which are rooted in different theoretical background, among which the Piagetian and the Vygotskian heritage. It also groups studies that examine a very wide range of teaching-learning situations, from kindergarten to university, from the workplace to informal learning, from traditional classes to experimental learning and multicultural settings. Please click here for more information on the EARLI Special Interest Group 10.
About SIG21SIG21 brings together researchers who study culturally diverse schools, classrooms and other educational settings from the perspectives of learning, teaching, social interaction and home-school relationships. Ethno-cultural diversity in schools is a big challenge for European education as large scale studies of school achievement have shown that migrant students often do not perform as well as native students and have fewer opportunities to be successful in the school system. Schools and teachers can find it difficult to adapt to the diverse cultural and language backgrounds of students. At the same time, research on what happens in culturally diverse schools, classrooms and other educational settings has been a neglected area. We think that the educational research community can contribute to the future of European society by putting research on processes within and around culturally diverse settings higher on the agenda. SIG21 wants to contribute to this aim. Please click here for more information on the EARLI Special Interest Group 21.
