30 June (Monday)

15.00 – 15.30

Welcome address from rector Vitaly Rubtsov

15.30 – 17.00

Boris Elkonin “Mediative action as object of study”

17.00 – 18.30

Nikolai Veresov “Refocusing lens on development: cultural-historical research methodology – what is it and how does it work” Part 1 Part 2

18.30 – 19.00

Informal opening reception

19.00 – 21.00

Departure to Povedniki

21.00 – 21.30

Dinner

1 July (Tuesday)

9.00 – 10.00

Breakfast

10.00 – 11.30

Manolis Dafermakis “Dialectics and Cultural-historical psychology”

10.30 – 12.00

Coffee break

12.00 – 13.30

Dmitry Lubovsky “Continuity and mutual addition of cultural-historical and activity approaches: methodological potential”

13.30 – 14.30

Lunch

14.30 – 15.00

Anton Zhelyabin “Psychotechnical methods of development of the complex subject”

15.00 – 15.30

Constance de Saint-Laurent “Remembering the collective past: norms, identities and perspective taking”

15.30 – 16.30

Discussion on basic concepts

16.30 – 17.00

Coffee break

17.00 – 18.30

Harry Daniels “Researching the invisible using sociocultural and activity theory”

18.30 – 19.00

Summary of the day

19.00 – 20.00

Dinner

2 July (Wednesday)

09.00 – 10.00

Breakfast

10.00 – 11.30

Bert van Oers “Gaining evidence for the educational value of play: a theory-driven methodological approach”

11.30 – 12.00

Coffee break

12.00 – 12.30

Irina Engeness “Learning by Use of Digital Environments”

12.30 – 13.00

Guilherme Brockington “Connecting Davydov’s works and Cognitive Neuroscience: a deep investigation in numerical skills acquisition”

13.00 – 13.30

Maria Oraevskaya “Comparative analysis of aesthetic education systems in Russia and Italy” talk

14.00 – 15.00

Lunch

15.00 – 16.30

Pentti Hakkarainen “Challenges in doing research on child development”

16.30 – 17.00

Claudia Ximena González Moreno “The development of symbolic activity in preschoolers: An intervention program through the thematic set of social roles”

17.00 – 17.30

Glykeria Fragkiadaki “Socio-cultural, historical approaches: methodological prospects and pedagogic extensions in Early Childhood Education – Focusing analysis on the interpersonal plane: the transmission course of thinking from the interpersonal to the personal level”

17.30 – 18.00

Coffee break

18.00 – 18.30

Milda Bredikyte “Study of Developmental Acts in Practice”

18.30 – 19.00

Summary of the day

19.00 – 20.00

Dinner

3 July (Thursday)

9.00 – 10.00

Breakfast

Moscow City Tour

20.00 – 21.00

Dinner

4 July (Friday)

09.00 – 10.00

Breakfast

10.00 – 11.30

Fedor Vasiluk “On the history of the notion “perezhivaniye”

11.30 – 12.00

Coffee break

12.00 – 12.30

Ann-Therese Arstorp “Digital technological artefacts mediating transformation and continuity in the teaching practice of the Danish Teacher Education”

12.30 – 13.00

Dewi Mulia “Re-conceptualizing scaffolding concept of teaching English as a foreign language through action research”

13.00 – 13.30

Cárita Portilho de Lima “The motive and the activity of study: subsidies for the psychologist’s performance along with the relationship between schools and families from a cultural-historical perspective”

13.30 – 14.00

Ana Paula Gomes Moreira “Limit-situation and Elementary Education: from comprehension to preventive intervention in School Psychology”

14.00 – 15.00

Lunch

15.00 – 16.30

Discussion on research problems

16.30 – 17.00

Coffee break

17.00 – 18.30

Focus groups

18.30 – 19.00

Summary of the day

19.00 – 12.00

Dinner

5 July (Saturday)

9.00 – 10.00

Breakfast

1.00 – 11.30

Aleksander Suvorov (personal website, some articles in Russian) “Tiflo-surdo-psychology: the progeny of cultural-historical approach”

11.30 – 12.00

Coffee break

12.00 – 12.30

Svetlana Strokova “Family identity of teenagers growing up in different types of families”

12.30 – 13.00

Tina Wilchen Christensen “A question of participation – Disengagement from the extreme rights, a case Study from Sweden”

13.00 – 13.30

Anne Mia Steno “Being and Becoming. Studies of educational paths and future dreams among youths in vocational education programs”

14.00 – 15.00

Lunch

15.00 – 16.00

Sueli Fidalgo “Applied Linguistics: This interdisciplinary, crossdisciplinary or “undisciplinary” field of study on the move”

16.00 – 17.00

Olga Rubtsova “English as the language of academic communication: challenges and perspectives”

17.00 – 17.30

Coffee break

17.30 – 19.00

Michael Joseph, Esther Ramani, Kenneth Ngcoza “Using Vygotsky’s ideas in curriculum development and research: CHAT at University of Limpopo and Rhodes University”

19.00 – 19.30

Summary of the day

19.30 – 20.30

Dinner

6 July (Sunday)

9.00 – 10.00

Breakfast

10.00 – 11.30

Svetlana Alekhina “Understanding inclusive education in the light of cultural-historical theory of Vygotsky”

11.30 – 12.00

Coffee break

12.00 – 12.30

Tatiana Silantieva “Higher mental functions of students in situation of inclusive education”

12.30 – 13.00

Adriane Cenci “Advances in the inclusive process of special need children in regular schools in Brazil: an intervention based on Vygotsky and Engeström principles”

13.00 – 13.30

Jenny Ros “Collaboration in the psychiatric and mental handicap fields: Analysis of systemic contradictions in the light of cultural-historical activity theory and dialogism”

14.00 – 15.00

Lunch

15.00 – 16.30

Final discussion

16.30 – 17.00

Coffee break

17.00 – 18.00

Natalya Ulanova, Olga Rubtsova “Digital Media in the Education of Students with Special Needs” site project, film “I love”

19.00 – 20.00

Dinner

20.00

Farewell party

7 July (Monday)

8.30-9.00

Breakfast

9.00

Departure