Gesture symposium at IISBD in Zambia, 2010?
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Claire Vallotton
Jun 24, 2009, 4:25:43 PM6/24/09
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Hello my fellow gesture researchers,
The International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (IISBD) will be hosting its biennial meeting in Zambia next summer (2010). I am considering putting together a session on the development of gesture and/or the role of gesture in development. Those of us who presented in Japan last summer talked about putting together a paper focusing on the unexpected things children do with gesture - their own inventions, meaningful changes they make to gestures, or connections they make between concepts with gesture. From a case study of I data on one child's "mistakes" in gesture which reveal something about early cognitive processes - she sees the picture of a bell pepper and gestures "salt", sees a live goat, hears the word "goat," and gestures "boat". I thought doing a symposium together may help us make progress on actually writing that paper. Another option would be to work from the data Chamarrita is collecting from each of us and present the developmental order of gestures in our different samples.
Let me know if you are interested, and what data/topics you'd like to present on.
There are several options for symposia, including the typical 3-talk option, as well as a 4-6 poster option. I really like the latter idea as I think it will provide us with a nice forum for real discusssion.
Proposals for conference presentations are due August 31.
Here is the call for proposals:
http://www.issbd2010.com/abstracts.htm
~Claire
The International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (IISBD) will be hosting its biennial meeting in Zambia next summer (2010). I am considering putting together a session on the development of gesture and/or the role of gesture in development. Those of us who presented in Japan last summer talked about putting together a paper focusing on the unexpected things children do with gesture - their own inventions, meaningful changes they make to gestures, or connections they make between concepts with gesture. From a case study of I data on one child's "mistakes" in gesture which reveal something about early cognitive processes - she sees the picture of a bell pepper and gestures "salt", sees a live goat, hears the word "goat," and gestures "boat". I thought doing a symposium together may help us make progress on actually writing that paper. Another option would be to work from the data Chamarrita is collecting from each of us and present the developmental order of gestures in our different samples.
Let me know if you are interested, and what data/topics you'd like to present on.
There are several options for symposia, including the typical 3-talk option, as well as a 4-6 poster option. I really like the latter idea as I think it will provide us with a nice forum for real discusssion.
Proposals for conference presentations are due August 31.
Here is the call for proposals:
http://www.issbd2010.com/abstracts.htm
~Claire
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