He is a member of the Sociedad Espanola de Historia de la Psicologia and the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, and he has served as vice president for the latter since 2005. Alberto Rosa is professor of psychology at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He has been a visiting professor in Australia, Brazil, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
In 1995, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in Germany for his interdisciplinary work on human development. He established the new journal on individual case analyses, International Journal of Idiographic Science (2005 ), and is the editor of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Sciences and From Past to Future: Annals of Innovations in Psychology (2007).
He edited (with Kevin Connolly) the Handbook of Developmental Psychology (2003 ). He has published many books, the most recent of which are The Guided Mind (1998), Culture and Human Development (2000), and Comparative Study of Human Cultural Development (2001).
He is currently professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology at Clark University. He is the founding editor (1995 ) of the journal Culture & Psychology. Jaan Valsiner is a cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base that is brought to analyses of any psychological or social phenomenon. Such symbols shape individual experiences and create the conditions for consciousness and the self to emerge turn social norms into ethics and set history into motion. The handbook emphasizes theoretical and methodological discussions on the cultural nature of human psychological phenomena, moving on to show how meaning is a natural feature of action and how it eventually produces conventional symbols for communication. The handbook integrates contributions of sociocultural specialists from 15 countries, all tied together by the unifying focus on the role of sign systems in human relations with the environment. Since the 1980s, the field of psychology has encountered the growth of a new discipline – cultural psychology – that has built new connections between psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, and semiotics. The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology This handbook provides a representative international overview of the state of our contemporary knowledge in sociocultural psychology – as a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and social sciences and the humanities.
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