| 38th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society June 6-8, 2008 Québec City, Canada The Jean Piaget Society announces the 38th Annual Meeting to take place in Québec City, Canada, at the Loews Le Concorde Hotel, on June 6-8, 2008. The theme of this year’s meeting is Adolescent Development: Processes of coordination and change. Our understanding of adolescent biological, cognitive, moral, and social development has been significantly revised over the past decade. The view of adolescence as characterized by progressive, qualitative change has given way to the view that adolescence is a period of vulnerability and instability entailing developmental continuity from childhood to adulthood. Recognizing that current views can obscure what makes adolescence a unique period in the life cycle, one of the major goals of the 2008 meeting is to explore the distinctiveness of adolescence from a constructivist and developmental perspective. The meeting will examine adolescence as a unique time of opportunity and vulnerability, as adolescents actively coordinate capacities, skills, and understandings within and across domains from neurological, cognitive, self-system, moral, and social perspectives.. Plenary speakers include: Robert Crosnoe (University of Texas, Austin), Jay Giedd (National Institutes of Health), Judi Smetana (University of Rochester), Larry Steinberg (Temple University) and Avril Thorne (University of California, Santa Cruz). Invited symposia on topics such as; intersections between peer and romantic relationships, risk and resilience, and constancy and change during adolescence will complement the perspectives offered by the plenary speakers. Please visit the Jean Piaget Society website, http://www.piaget.org, for program and registration details or write to: Colette Daiute |