Anna Stetsenko is Associate Professor and Head of the Ph.D. Program in Developmental Psychology. She received her doctorate in general and developmental psychology from Moscow State University. She has been a Research Scientist at the same University and also at the Institute of General and Educational Psychology of the Russian Academy of Education; Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Berlin, Germany; Invited Visiting Fellow at the Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna, Austria; and Assistant Professor at the Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland. Dr. Stetsenko has been active in developing the sociocultural activity theory and its implications for the issues of human development and learning. The focus of Dr. Stetsenko’s empirical research is on children's and adolescents' social development (e.g., gender, self-concept, motivation) with an emphasis on how this development is shaped by their interactions and activities within sociocultural contexts. Dr. Stetsenko is on the editorial boards of and served as consultant editor to leading scientific journals.
Stetsenko, A. & Arievitch, I. (forthcoming). Learning and development: Post-Vygotskian perspectives. In G. Wells & G. Claxton (Eds.), Cultural-historical activity theory and the future of education. London etc.: Camridge University Press.
Stetsenko, A., Little, T., Gordeeva, T., Grasshof, M., & Oettingen, G. (2000). Gender effects in children's beliefs about school: A cross-cultural study. Child Development, 73, pp. 517-527.
Arievitch, I. M. & Stetsenko, A. (2000). Development through learning: Galperin’s contribution. Human Development, 43, 69-93.
Stetsenko, A. (1999). The centrality of cultural tools in learning and development: Implications for the theory of development. In M. Hedegaard, S. Chaiklin, S. Boedker, & U. J. Jensen (Eds.), Activity theory and social practice. Proceedings of the ISCRAT 1998: Keynote speeches and panels (pp. 235-253). Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
Stetsenko, A., & Arievitch, I. (1997). Constructing and deconstructing the self: Comparing post-Vygotskian and discourse-based versions of social constructivism. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 4, 160-173.
Stetsenko, A., Little, T., Oettingen, G., & Baltes, P. B. (1995). Control, agency and means-ends beliefs about school performance in Moscow children: How similar are they to beliefs of Western children? Developmental Psychology, 31, 285-299.
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email: astetsenko@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-817-8715