A Workshop on An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Social Cooperation, Spring 2002 at the University of Memphis

关于社会合作的跨学科探索讲习班Joann Keyton拟议的讲习班赠款的目标是开发和执行一个小型讲习班，以促进跨学科研究，以确定有助于或影响儿童在小组中合作工作的能力的因素，这些因素对儿童的学术和社会发展至关重要。为此，拟议的讲习班将：(A)汇集有助于我们理解社会合作的三个学科--传播学、教育学和心理学的学者；(B)邀请每一学科的一名资深学者在讲习班上作主旨发言；(C)邀请区域学者(一般为阿拉巴马州、阿肯色州、佐治亚州、肯塔基州、密西西比州、密苏里州、田纳西州)参加讲习班的工作会议，以帮助探索这一研究重点，制定研究议程，并发现潜在的跨学科研究伙伴；和(D)邀请从事儿童和青少年工作的社区领导人和专家提供一个实际框架，以便开展研究，基础研究可以为其提供有意义的答案。因此，讲习班旨在促进交流关于儿童在每一种环境(家庭、同龄人小组、有组织的活动和学校环境)中的儿童社会合作能力的最新知识，并促进跨学科知识交流。更具体地说，主办学者希望利用研讨会及其活动来阐明发展一个跨学科研究中心的愿景，该中心将促进来自中南部地区大学、学区和社区机构的研究人员之间的合作。

AbstractA Workshop on An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Social CooperationJoann KeytonThe goal of the proposed workshop grant is to develop and execute a small workshop that promotes interdisciplinary research that identifies the factors that contribute to, or compromise, children's ability to work cooperatively in groups critical skill for children's academic and social development. To that end, the proposed workshop will: (a) bring together scholars in three disciplines--Communication, Education, and Psychology that can contribute to our understanding of social cooperation; (b) invite a senior scholar in each of these disciplines to keynote at the workshop; (c) invite regional scholars (generally, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee) to participate in working sessions of the workshop to help explore this research focus, develop research agendas, and discover potential interdisciplinary research partners; and (d) invite community leaders and experts who work with children and adolescents to provide a practical framework from which research is generated and for which basic research can provide meaningful answers.Thus, the workshop is designed to promote exchange of current knowledge about children's social cooperativeness in each of the contexts in which children find themselves as group members (families, peer groups, organized activities, and school settings), and to promote exchange of knowledge across disciplines. More specifically, the host scholars want to use the workshop and its activities as a vehicle for articulating a vision for developing an interdisciplinary research center that would promote collaborative work among researchers from universities, school districts, and community agencies throughout the Mid-South region.