US-Brazil Workshop: Methods for Studying Human Development in Culturally Diverse Contexts, April 2004, Serrambi, Brazil

国际科学与工程办公室的美洲项目和行为与认知科学系的发展与学习科学项目支持由特拉华县宾夕法尼亚州立大学的Cynthia Lightfoot在巴西伯南布哥联邦大学的Maria Lyra的协助下组织的为期三天的研讨会。本次研讨会将于2004年4月8日至10日在巴西伯南布哥的Serrambi召开。来自美国、巴西、加拿大和欧洲的研究生、初入职场的教师和资深教师将制定适合在不同社会文化背景下研究人类发展的研究方法。这所学校的重点将放在文化背景下的人类发展，包括元理论和其对解决发展多样性的影响。本次研讨会将汇集来自未被充分代表的群体的年轻学者，他们处于发展研究项目的早期阶段，以及在本科院校担任终身职位的年轻教师。除了让这些年轻的研究人员接触到国际范围内的科学讨论之外，这些讲习班预计还将带来重要的专业机会，包括国际联合项目和出版物。学生和教师将共同研究与正在进行的工作相关的方法，特别是年轻学者的研究项目，并有望产生实质性的国际研究合作。

The Americas Program of the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Developmental and Learning Sciences Program in the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences support a three-day workshop organized by Cynthia Lightfoot of the Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County with the assistance of Brazilian co-organizer Maria Lyra of the Federal University of Pernambuco. This workshop will convene April 8-10, 2004 in Serrambi, Pernambuco, Brazil. Graduate students, early-career faculty, and senior faculty from the U.S., Brazil, Canada, and Europe will formulate research methods appropriate for studying human development in diverse sociocultural contexts. The focus of this school will be on human development as culturally situated, both metatheoretically and in its implications for addressing developmental diversity.This workshop will bring together young scholars from underrepresented groups in the early phases of developing research programs as well as young faculty who are in tenure-track positions at undergraduate institutions. In addition to exposing these young researchers to scientific discussions in an international context, the workshops are expected to result in significant professional opportunities, including international joint projects and publications. The students and faculty will work jointly on methodologies that are relevant to works in progress, particularly research programs of the young scholars, and substantive international research collaborations are expected to result.