Jean Piaget Society Meeting, Belgrade: Rethinking context as process when studying human development

The 54th annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society (JPS 2025) will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, May 29-May 31, 2025. ISCAR members are among the organizers of the conference.

The JPS 2025 conference theme revisits the premise shared by most modern scholars that human development is always contextualized. While context has increasingly been incorporated into developmental science, it has been viewed causally in many studies, as an external variable that stands apart from the developing person. However, the context is more than this. Many studies have begun conceptualizing context more dynamically with participants in interaction actively and reflexively shaping context as much as context shapes interactions.

The 2025 JPS conference aims to revisit existing considerations of context as external settings or arenas of development (e.g., home, school, neighborhood as contexts of development) by conceptualizing context as a complex dynamic reality that undergoes changes including those produced when humans interact.

The 2025 conference will examine these dynamic processes and their relationship to human development. Invited symposia topics include:

  • Activity systems as contexts
  • Resources to relate to others and to otherness
  • Children and youth perspectives
  • Supporting development of children from vulnerable communities.

Submission deadline is January 6th, 2025.

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