MEETING OF THE MINDS SOCIAL HOURPART I: Creating Your "Ticket" to AttendYour "ticket" to get into the social hour will be a hard copy (paper) notes summarizing the most important aspects of "your" (i.e. your theorist’s work). To do this you will need to find at LEAST 3 separate internet websites about your theorist, and print them off. Here are the steps: 1. Locate websites for theorist and print2. Using 4 different colored highlighters, begin to highlight where you find answers to the following about your theorist: The relative importance of heredity and the environment on developmentThe historical and cultural milieu at the time you were developing your theory What types of data you used to develop your theory, and/or what other theorists influenced your thinking.What catalyst or mechanisms cause change to occur over time3. Once highlighting is completed, compile your own notes from these sources listing only the information in each of the above categories. (This is not a formal essay, therefore paragraphs are not necessary). You can list, outline, make a web, whatever helps you to integrate the information from several sources. In your notes, summarize your theory and the key vocabulary you as theorist use, and what that vocabulary means. If your theory says that development proceeds in a stage-like fashion, clearly specify how the stages differ from one another. Make clear what mechanism or mechanisms you think cause change to occur over time.Notes must be word-processed, 3-4 pages and saved on disk!Your ticket to attend will consist of your compiled notes plus the highlighted webpage printoffs.PART II: Social HourYou will turn in your ticket to enter the social hour. So, make sure you make a separate copy of your notes to refer to while you are mingling. You will be mingling with other important theorists attending the conference social hour. You and your colleagues are all well-known in your field and anxious to share with each other your perspectives on matters to which you have devoted your lives. As is usually the case at such functions, this is a very important occasion to:- get better acquainted with the ideas of others influencing your field;- find "kindred spirits" whose ideas parallel, complement, or enhance your own;- test your wits and your convictions against arguments and data of your best and brightest adversaries;- impress colleagues (e.g., make a "name" for yourself!)During the Social Hour, you will mingle with your peers, engaging in conversation about your work and your views on:- children- learning- education- developmentSTAY IN CHARACTER, but don’t actually reveal your name in the conversation. Keep moving. Argue. Probe for the weaknesses in each other’s views. Try to convince others of the rightness of your position. Form "alliances" with those who seem to hold similar positions to your own. Be a powerful voice in this field about which you are
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