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Date: February 20 (Thursday), 2003, 15:00-18:30
Location: Conference Room 1 (Floor Level 2) at Faculty House Trillium at Hokkaido University





Participants: about 30.
Chair Hiroaki Ishiguro (Graduate School of Education, Hokkaido University/Developmental Psycology)





15:00 Start

[ Title1 ]
The social formation of eating behaviors-An approach of Micro Ethnographic Method
Makoto Shibayama (Kamakura Women's College, Developmental Psychology, Micro-Ethnography)


The settings in which we eat facilitate children's development. However, cultural frames play an important role in these settings because it is the caregivers who mainly decide the content, the method, and the orders of eating behavior. Children in kindergarten cannot eat freely. They must participate in the eating events and abide by the rules acknowledged by the caregivers. In this paper, Professor Shibayama focused on the experiences of the new-comers during the school lunch as well as the guidance of the caregivers during the school lunch. The processes by which children's eating behaviors are socio-culturally formed were elaborated on.



[ Title2 ]
Towards the complete theorization and description of language communication
Masahiro Furuyama (National Institute of Information, Ecological Psychology)


Professor Furuyama examined why and how we can communicate and understand each other, as well as of how we describe others. He discussed the ecological foundations of communication and provided various discussion topics on the description of communication. In his work, Professor Furuyama has been searching for the relationships between seemingly contradictory stances and offered direct realism found in ecological psychology and language mediation.



[ Discussants ]
Kentaro Suzuki (Sapporo Gakuin University/ Ecological Psychology)
Hiroshi Oda (Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University/ Cultural Anthropology)
Tomoharu Yanagimachi (International Center, Hokkaido University/Education in Japanese)




18:30 End

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