Events

Time: Tuesday, July 22, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM (JST)
Venue: DAICEL Studio, 1st floor of Science Commons Bld. (Center for Education in Liberal Arts and Sciences), Osaka University Toyonaka Campus (and online via Zoom)
Languages: Presentation will be in English. Comments and Discussion will be in both English and Japanese

Registration: Please register from the URL or QR code on the flyer.
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【Presenters】
Matthew Burdelski（Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, the University of Osaka）
Joseph Iseri（Visiting Researcher at the University of Osaka, PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa）

【Discussant】
Yusuke Okada (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, the University of Osaka)

【Summary】
Children’s socialization into becoming competent members of institutions—such as preschools and classrooms–and, by extension, the broader society in which they are embedded, takes place through various forms of participation in culturally organized activities (Goodwin & Goodwin, 2004; Ochs, Solomon & Sterponi, 2005). In this pair of presentations, we focus on activity transitions—that is, the interstitial or “in-between” moments that occur between two primary activities or events. We examine the multimodal resources (e.g., talk, gaze, objects) and practices that participants—both teachers and children—draw on to accomplish social actions and display stances. Our analyses highlight how these transitional moments serve as sites of socialization, understood as both a reproductive and transformative process. The data are drawn from video recordings of naturally occurring interaction in a Japanese preschool and an international school.