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Anna Stetsenko
Developmental Psychology Subprogram Head
Email: astetsenko@gc.cuny.edu
phone : 212.817.8715
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Anna Stetsenko is a Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, with joint appointments in Developmental Psychology and Urban Education. Before coming to CUNY in 1999, she has worked and taught in Universities and research centers in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Russia. Dr. Stetsenko's research interests revolve around the issues of self, agency, identity, gender, and social transformation, particularly in application to development and learning in educational contexts and social institutions such as schools, after-school programs, families, communities, and child welfare system. In her research, Dr. Stetsenko employs the model of "activist scholoarship" focusing on developing theory and research tools to study and promote development and learning as relational and collaborative processes contingent on social interaction and equitable access to social resources and cultural mediators.

Dr. Stetsenko's theoretical background is in Vygotsky's cultural-historical activity theory. She currently works to expand it within a Transformative Activist Stance, and approach at the intersection of activity theory, critical pedagogy and feminist studies. It encompasses developments in dynamic systems theory, distributed and situated cognition, and participatory learning framework and is articulated in a series of Dr. Stetsenko's recent publications such as Personhood: An activist project of historical Becoming through collaborative pursuits of social transformation (New Ideas in Psychology, 2010), Teaching-learning and development as activist projects of historical Becoming: Expanding Vygotsky's approach to pedagogy (Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2010), and From relational ontology to transformative activist stance: Expanding Vygotsky's (CHAT) project (Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2008).

Anna Stetsenko is curently engaged in an NSF-sponsored project (with Drs. S. Kirch and C. Milne, NYU) that seeks to understand the experiences and condition that facilitate elementary science students learning and conceptual development. Recent topics that she has worked on together with several students in the Developmental Program and Urban Education, include
- implementing sociocultural activity theory to developing educational programs that make learning meaningful to students;
- learning and development as processes of collaborative Becoming through contribution to social practices;
- disability as a social phenomenon not confined to individual deficits;
- identity development and learning.

Published Books & Book Chapters

Stetsenko, A. (in press). Darwin and Vygotsky on development: An exegesis on human nature. In M. Kontopodis, Ch. Wulf & B. Fichtner (Eds.), Children, Culture and Education. (To be published in 2010, in Springer/ Series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development). New York: Springer.

Stetsenko, A. (2010). Standing on the shoulders of giants: A balancing act of dialectically theorizing conceptual understanding on the grounds of Vygotsky's project. In W.-M. Roth (ed.), Re/structuring science education: ReUniting Psychological and Sociological Perspectives (pp. 53- 72). New York: Springer.

Stetsenko, A. & Arievitch, I. (2010). Cultural-historical activity theory: Foundational worldview and major principles. In J. Martin and S. Kirschner (Eds.), The Sociocultural Turn in Psychology: The Contextual Emergence of Mind and Self (pp. 231-253). New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Stetsenko, A. (2009). Vygotsky and the conceptual revolution in developmental sciences: Towards a unified (non-additive) account of human development. In M. Fleer, M. Hedegaard, J. Tudge & A. Prout (Eds.) World Year Book of Education. Constructing childhood: Global–local policies and practices (pp. 125-142). Routledge.

Stetsenko, A., & Vianna, E. (2009). Overcoming the gap between theory and practice in research on teaching, learning and development: Lessons from Vygotskian project. In O. Barbarin and B. H. Wasik (Eds.), Handbook of Child Development and Early Education. Research to Practice (pp. 38-54). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Stetsenko, A. (2006). [Cultural-historical activity theory in today's context: Non-classical approach to non-classical psychology]. In A. A. Leotniev (Ed.), Psihologicheskaja teorija dejatelnosti: Vchera, segodnja, zavtra [Psychological theory of activity: Yesterday, today, tomorrow] (pp. 16-39). Moscow: Smisl.

Stetsenko, A. & Arievitch, I. (2005). Expanding Vygotsky's perspective on teaching, learning, and development. Cambridge University Press.

Stetsenko, A. (2005). The birth of consciousness: Early stages in the development of systems of meanings [Rozhdenie soznanija: rannie etapi v razvitii sistemi znachenij]. Moscow: CheRo Press.

Stetsenko, A. (2004). Introduction to "Tool and sign" by Lev Vygotsky. In R. Rieber and D. Robbinson (Eds.), Essential Vygotsky (pp. 499-510). NY etc: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum.

Robbins, D., & Stetsenko, A. (2002) (Eds.). Vygotsky's psychology: Voices from the past and present. NY: Nova Science Press.

Stetsenko, A. (2002). Vygotsky's cultural-historical activity theory: Collaborative practice and knowledge construction process. In D. Robbins and A. Stetsenko (Eds.), Vygotsky's psychology: Voices from the past and present. NY: Nova Science Press.


Stetsenko, A. (2002). Sociocultural activity as a unit of analysis: How Vygotsky and Piaget converge in empirical research on collaborative cognition. In D. Bearison and B. Dorval (commentary chapter), Collaborative cognition: Children negotiating ways of knowing (pp. 122-135). Westport, CT: Ablex.

Stetsenko, A., & Arievitch, I. M. (2002). Learning and development: Contributions from post-Vygotskian research. In G. Wells and G. Cluxton (Eds.) Learning for life in the 21st century: Sociocultural perspectives on the future of education (pp. 84-97). London etc.: Blackwell. http://people.ucsc.edu/~gwells/CHATbook/Ch7.StetsenkoArievitch.html

Stetsenko, A. (2002). Adolescents in Russia: Trends and developments. In B. Bradford Brown & R. Larsson (Eds.), The world of adolescence: Changing paths to adulthood around the globe. New York etc.: Cambridge University Press.
(The book has been awarded with the SRCD prize in 2002 as the best book of the year).

Stetsenko, A. (1999). Social interaction, cultural tools, and the zone of proximal development: In search of a synthesis. 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.

Grob, A., Stetsenko, A., Sabatier, C., Botcheva, L., & Macek, P. (1999). Across-national model of subjective well-being in adolescence. In F. D. Alsaker & A. Flammer (Eds.), The Adolescent Experience: European and American Adolescents in the 1990s (pp. 115-131). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Stetsenko, A. (1998). Teorii tvorchestva: sotsiokulturnij podhod [Theories of creativity: Views from a sociocultural perspective]. In D. B. Bogojavlenskaja (Ed.), Teorii tvorchestva [Theories of creativity] (pp. 315-328). Moscow: Molodaja Gvardija.

Stetsenko, A., & Arievitch, I. (1996). The zone of proximal development. In J. Lompscher (Ed.), Entwicklung und lernen aus kulturhistorischer Sicht [Development and learning from a cultural-historical point of view] (pp. 81-93). Marburg: BdWi-Verlag.

Stetsenko, A. (1995). The psychological functions of children's drawing: A Vygotskian perspective. In G. Thomas and Ch. Lange-Küttner (Eds.), Drawing and Looking (pp. 147-158). New York etc.: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
[Also appeared in Italian translation: La funzione psicologica del disegno infantile: una prospettiva Vygotskiana (2000). In Bambini, Anno XVI, n. 4, pp. 19-31. Translation and foreword by Prof. Mariolina Bartolini-Bussi].

Stetsenko, A. (1991). Naturalisticheskaja i sotsio-kulturnaja paradigmi v issledovanijah fenomena odarennosti [Naturalistic and sociocultural research paradigms in the study of giftedness]. In A. Matjushkin (Ed.), Obshestvennije dvizhenija i sotsialnaja aktivnost molodezhi [Social trends and activities in modern youth and adolescence] (pp. 203-215). Moscow: Institute of Sociology Press.

Stetsenko, A. (1990). Printsip predmetnosti v teorii dejatelnosti [The principle of object-relatedness in the theory of activity]. In V. V. Davydov & D. A. Leontjev (Eds.), Dejatelnostnij podhod v psihologii: Problemi i perspektivi [Activity approach in psychology: Problems and perspectives] (pp. 20-35). Moscow: USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences Press.
[also published in English translation in Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, 1995, 33, 54-69].

Stetsenko, A. (1988). O diahrinicheskom printsipe istoriko-psihologicheskogo analiza nauchnih kontsepsij [Some principles in the historical analysis of psychological conceptions]. In A. Zhdan (Ed.), Izuchenije traditsij i nauchnih shkol v istorii sovetskoj psihologii [Scientific schools and traditions in the history of Soviet psychology] (pp.46-51). Moscow: Moscow University Press.

Stetsenko, A. (1986). Issledovatelskaja zadacha i struktura psihologicheskogo znanija [Research task and the structure of psychological knowledge]. In A. Barabanchikov (Ed.), Metodologija psihologicheskogo issledovanija [Methodology of Psychological Research] (pp. 10-23). Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences Press.

Arievitch I., & Stetsenko, A. (1988). Dejatelnostnij podhod k probleme soznanija [Activity-based approach to the analysis of consciousness]. In A. Prokhorov et al. (Eds.), Genezis, struktura i funktsii individualnogo soznanija [Development, structure and functions of individual consciousness] (pp. 3-7). Ivanovo: University Press.

Stetsenko, A. (1981). Vygotskij i porblema znachenija [L. S. Vygotsky and the concept of meaning]. In V. V. Davydov (Ed.), Nauchnoe tvorchestvo L. S. Vigotskogo i sovremennaja psihologija [Scientific works of L. S. Vygotsky and modern psychology] (pp. 148-151). Moscow: USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences Press.

 

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Published Journal Articles

Stetsenko, A. (2010a). Teaching-learning and development as activist projects of historical Becoming: Expanding Vygotsky's approach to pedagogy. Pedagogies: An International Journal (Special Issue on Vygotskian –16.

Stetsenko, A. (2010b). Personhood: An activist project of historical Becoming through collaborative pursuits of social transformation. New Ideas in Psychology (invited paper for the Special Issue on Personhood, edited by Jack Martin and John Bickhart).

Stetsenko, A. (2008a). From relational ontology to transformative activist stance: Expanding Vygotsky's (CHAT) project. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 3, 465-485.

Stetsenko, A. (2008b). Collaboration and cogenerativity: On bridging the gaps separating theory-practice and cognition-emotion. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 3, 513-525.

Sawchuk, P. & Stetsenko, A. (2008). Sociology for a non-canonical activity theory: Exploring intersections and complementarities. Mind, Culture and Activity, 15(4), 339-360.

Stetsenko, A. (2007). Being-through-doing: Bakhtin and Vygotsky in dialogue. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2, 25-37.

Stetsenko, A. (2006). Agency and society: Lessons from the study of social change. Guest commentary article to appear in International Journal of Psychology; Special Issue on Agency and Social Change (guest editor R. Silbereisen).

Vianna, E., & Stetsenko, A. (2006). Embracing History through transforming it: Contrasting Piagetian versus Vygotskian (Activity) theories of learning and development to expand constructivism within a dialectical view of history. Theory and Psychology (Special Issue on Activity Theory; guest editor - Lois Holzman), Vol. 16, 1, pp. 81-108.

Stetsenko, A. (2005). Activity as object-related: Resolving the dichotomy of individual and collective types of activity. Mind, Culture, and Activity (Special Issue on the principle of object-relatedness, guest editors V. Kaptelinin and R. Miettinen), Vol. 12 (1), 70-88.

Stetsenko, A., & Arievitch, I. (2004). Vygotskian collaborative project of social transformation: History, politics, and practice in knowledge construction. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 12 (4), 58-80.


Stetsenko, A. (2004). Perspektivi teorii dejatelnosti v svete sovremennih tendentsij v psihologii [Perspectives of activity theory in the context of today's psychology]. Vestnik MGU, Psychology Series, January-March, pp. 23-39.

Stetsenko, A., & Arievitch, I. (2004). The self in cultural-historical activity theory: Reclaiming the unity of social and individual dimensions of human development. Theory and Psychology, 14 (4), 475-503.


Stetsenko, A. (2003). Alexander Luria and the cultural-historical activity theory: Pieces for the history of an outstanding collaborative project in psychology. Review of E. D. Homskaya (2001), Alexander Romanovich Luria: A scientific biography. Mind, Culture, and Acitivity, 10 (1), pp. 93-97.

Stetsenko, A. (2002). The illusive nature of social change: Whence is a change and how it relates to human development? Review of Lisa J. Crockett and Rainer K. Silbereisen (2000) (Eds.), Negotiating adolescence in times of social change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Contemporary Psychology, 47 (2), 151-153.

Arievitch, I. M. & Stetsenko, A. (2000). Development through learning: Galperin's contribution. Human Development, 43, 69-93.

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.
[reproduced in Michele A. Paludi (Ed), Human Development in Multicultural Contexts: A Book of Readings, 2002 ].


Stetsenko, A. (2000). Adolescent girls and gender issues in Russia. Society for Research on Adolescence Newsletter, Spring issue, 4-10.

Little, T. D., Stetsenko, A., & Maier, H. (1999). Action-control beliefs and school performance: A longitudinal study of Moscow children and adolescents. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 23, 799-823.

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. (1997). The role of the principle of object-relatedness in the theory of activity. Journal of Russian and East European Psychology. Special Issue: The Legacy of A. N. Leont'ev, 33, 25-39.

Stetsenko, A. (1997). The notes on L.S. Vygotsky's popularity in Western universities. Voprosi Psychologii [Russian Journal of Psychological Issues], January-February, 107-109.

Stetsenko, A., Little, T. D., Oettingen, G., & Baltes, P. B. (1997). Razvitije predstavlenij o shkolnoj dejatelnosti u detej: Kross-kulturnoe issledovanije [Development of children's conceptions about school performance: A cross-cultural study]. Voprosi Psihologii [Russian Journal of Psychological Issues], 6, 3-25.

Grob, A., Little, T. D., Wanner, B., Wearing, A. J., & Stetsenko, A. (Euronet) (1996). Adolescents' well-being and perceived control across fourteen sociocultural contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 785-795.

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.

Little, T. D., Oettingen, G., Stetsenko, A., & Baltes, P. B. (1995). Children's action-control beliefs and school performance: How do American children compare with German and Russian children? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 686-700.

Stetsenko, A. (1995). Review of the Defectology and mental deficiency by Lev S. Vygotsky (in French). Swiss Journal of Psychology, 54 (4), 305-305, 1995.

Stetsenko, A. (1993). Vygotsky: Reflections on the reception and further development of his thought. Multidisciplinary Newsletter for Activity Theory, 13/14, 38-45.

Stetsenko, A. (1990). O roli i statuse metodologicheskogo znanija v sovremennoj Sovetskoj psihologii [The role and status of methodological knowledge in modern Soviet psychology]. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta: Serija Psihologii [Journal of Moscow State University: Psychological Series], 2, 39-49.

Stetsenko, A. (1989). The concept of an "Image of the World" and some problems in the ontogeny of consciousness. Soviet Psychology, 27, 6-24.

Leontjev, D. A., Stetsenko, A. & Eidman, E. (1989). Scientific heritage of Vygotsky and world Psychology. Voprosi Psychologii [Russian Journal of Psychological Issues], 2, March-April, 171-175.

Arievitch I., Stetsenko, A. (1989). From Vygotsky to Galperin: Development of a cultural-historical approach. Storia della Psicologia [History of Psychology], 1, 111-114.

Stetsenko, A. (1987). Nekotorije napravlenija v izuchenii yazika i kommunikatsii v Zapadnoj psihologii: Obzor Serii Springer [Some trends in studies of language and communication in Western psychology: Review of the Springer Series]. Voprosi Psychologii [Russian Journal of Psychological Issues], 3, 158-165.

Stetsenko, A. (1987). Review of Child's talk. Learning to use language by Jerome S. Bruner. Voprosi Psychologii [Russian Journal of Psychological Issues], (4), July-August, 159-161.

Stetsenko, A. (1983). K probleme psihologicheskoj klassifikatsii znachenij [Psychological classifications of meaning].Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta: Serija Psihologii [Journal of Moscow State University: Psychology Series], 1, 22-30.

Kaptelinin, V., & Stetsenko, A. (1989). Computer-aided cognitive development: Microworlds and reality. In: Children in the information age: Human Development and emerging Technologies (pp. 305-316). Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Human Development and Engineering Technology. Sofia, Bulgaria.

 

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Invited Lectures/Colloquia & Invited Symposia

(selected list; full list of conference presentations is available upon request)

Activity Theory Perspective on Language and Development. Invited lecture and
workshop tutorial at the Conference LANGUAGE IN ACTION - VYGOTSKY AND LEONTIEVIAN LEGACY TODAY, June, 8-10, 2006. University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

The dialectics of history: The relevance of Vygotsky's approach for the 21st century education. The Fifth Martin and Cindy Spector Endowed Lecture, The Penn State University, Center for Language Acquisition, October 10, 2005.

Psychology of Gender: The Challenge of Social Change in a Gendered World. Invited talk at the ISSBD workshop in Moscow, June 19-21, 2005.

Activity Theory in the context of today's world psychology. Invited Panel Talk at the International Conference "Theory of activity: Fundamental science and social practice" (devoted to the centennial of A. N. Leontjev), Moscow, May 28-30, 2003.

Non-classical approach to Vygotskian theory. Invited lecture at the joint colloquium of Departments of General Psychology and Psychology of Personality, Moscow University, Moscow, June 2003.

CHAT: Collaborative investigative project in psychology. Invited talk at the joint colloquium of Developmental, Environmental and Social/Personality Programs, Graduate Center, CUNY, April 2003.

Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: A Promising Paradigmatic Shift in Psychology. Invited talk at the Center for Developmental Neuroscience (CDN), College of Staten Island, CUNY, May 2002.

Cultural-Historical Activity Theory. Invited lecture at the Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, Boston, March 2002.

Language development form a cultural-historical perspective. Invited talk in colloquium series at the PhD Program in Linguistics, Graduate Center, CUNY, November 2001.

Teaching, Learning, and Development: Sociocultural perspectives. Keynote address at the III Congress of the Brazilian Society for Developmental Psychology, Niteroi, Brazil, July 2000.

The centrality of cultural tools in learning and development: Implications for developmental psychology. Invited Panel talk at the Fourth Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory (ISCRAT), Aarhus, Denmark. 1998, June.

Human agency in cultural-historical approaches: Problems and perspectives. Invited Symposium at the Fourth Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory (ISCRAT), Aarhus, Denmark. 1998, June.

Gender differences in children's academic self-concept: What does a cross-cultural comparison reveal? Invited Lecture at the Workshop "Areas of cultural-psychological research" of the German Society for Cultural Psychology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. 1998, May.

Guest Lecture "Discourse-based and Vygotskian Versions of Social Constructivism in Developmental Psychology" at the International Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna, Austria. 1996, October.

Invited lecture "The Zone of Proximal Development: Resolving the Contradiction between Idea and Method in Post-Vygotskian Psychology" at the "Wygotski-Konferenz", Potsdam, Germany. 1996, June.

Invited symposium Semiotic Systems and Psychological Functions. Held at the 2d Conference for Socio-Cultural Research "Vygotsky and Piaget", Geneva, Switzerland. Together with A. Raiethel. 1996, September.

Invited lecture "Vygotsky as a pioneer of cultural-psychological thinking" at the meetings of the German Society for Cultural Sciences "Pioniere des Kultur-psychologischen Denkens" [Pioneers of the sociocultural approach], Tramelan, Switzerland. 1996, May.

Keynote address "Social Constructivism in Developmental Psychology: Post-Vygotskian versions" at the Meetings of the German Psychological Society, Leipzig, Germany. 1995, September.

Philosophical foundations of psychology: What has to be re-thought in the discipline? Invited talk at the workshop "Rethinking - The Enlightenment", organized by Prof. Ehuda Elkana (Israel) at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany. 1995, November.

The Concept of Competence and Developmental Change in the Framework of neo-Piagetian and neo-Vygotskian Theories. Invited talk at the 2d German-Italian Conference on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Menaggio, Italy. Together with M. Keller, 1994, September.

Vygotsky on education: Too much of intervention? Invited colloquium held at the Institute of Empirical Education and Educational Psychology (Ordinarius: Prof. Hans Mandl), University of Muenchen, Germany. Together with I. Arievitch (1994, December).

Vygotsky's perspectives on development in infancy. Talk at the NIH, Laboratory of Infant Development (Prof. M. Bornstein), Washington, DC. 1992, March.

Vygotsky's psychology. Invited talk for the Center for Human Development at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education. Berlin, Germany, 1992, June.

 

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Editorial Activities

Member, Editorial Board:
Mind, Culture, and Activity, 1998 - till present;

Psycholinguistic Research, 2002- till present
Reviewer For:
- Human Development; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; European Journal of Psychology of Education; International Journal of Behavioral Development; Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal; Journal of Psycholinguistic Research; Jacobs Foundation Research Grant Committee; Objects: International journal. Also reviewer for Oxford university Press, Cambroidge University Press.

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Chaired Symposia & Workshops

Stetsenko, A. (Chair and Organizer). Lessons from Vygotsky's project for sociocultural practices of today: Issues of history, ideology and social justice. Symposium organized at the First International Congress of ISCAR, Seville, Spain, September 2005.

Stetsenko, A. (Chair and Organizer, together with Eduardo Vianna). Practicing psychology committed to social justice: Implications from the Vygotskian project. Symposium organized at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, June 3-5, 2004, Toronto, Canada.

Stetsenko, A. (Chair and Organizer). Activity Theory and the Embodied Mind (talk The embodied mind in its conceptualization within the cultural-historical activity theory). Symposium organized at the 32d Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA, June 6-8, 2002.

Stetsenko, A. (Chair and Organizer). Cultural-Historical Activity Theory in the context of today's challenges: Understanding its meaning, status, and liberating potential. Symposium at the Fifth Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory (ISCRAT), Amsterdam, June 2002.

Stetsenko, A. (Chair, together with Larry Nucci) (April, 2001). The self and the dynamics of social change. Symposium at the 2001 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Michigan.

Stetsenko, A., & Ho, Hsiu-Zu (Chairs) (1998, July). Gender and Culture: Investigating the Interactions. Symposium at the XVth Biennial ISSBD Meetings, Bern, Switzerland.

Stetsenko, A. (Chair) (1998, June). Human Agency: Perspectives from Sociocultural Research. Symposium at the 4th International Congress of ISCRAT (International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory), Aarhus, Denmark.

Stetsenko, A. (Chair, together with Anna Maciel) (July, 1993). A life-span approach to exceptionality: Exceptional people, exceptional performance, exceptional lives. Symposium at the 12 Biennial Meetings of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Recife, Brazil.

Stetsenko, A. (Chair, together with E. Witruk) (July, 1993). Social changes in Europe and their impact on personality development. Symposium at the VI European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Bonn, Germany.

Stetsenko, A. (Chair, together with A. Flammer) (September, 1992). Adolescence in Europe. Poster Workshop at the 5th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Seville, Spain.

Stetsenko, A. (Chair, together with F. van der Vijver) (July, 1991). Cross-cultural Studies of Cognitive Development. Symposium at the 1X Meetings of The International Society for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Debrecen, Hungary.

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