Learning and Socio-Cultural Theory

March 7, 2007

	Workshop attendees

The international workshop, jointly organised by Learning and the Learner Research group and ISCAR (The International Society for Cultural Activity and Research), and Chaired by A/Prof  Peter Kell and Dr. Irina Verenikina, was a great success. It was well attended with over 50 participants who came from a number of different disciplines. The workshop included participants from Japan, US, UK, New Zealand and a number of different universities in Australia.

Keynote for the workshop, Prof. Harry Daniels, Director for the Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research, and Professor of Education: Culture and Pedagogy at the University of Bath, UK is well known with a number of his books in the area.

The workshop stimulated a lot of new and exciting discussion about learning and teaching from a Vyotskian perspective and will lead to a number of downstream activities such as, published workshop proceedings and a Learning and the Learner led website on Vygotksy.
The workshop was smoothly run with terrific help from Gillian Vogl and Marianne Gale who have done a great job organising it.