Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development

This series brings to the readership in educational and social sciences up to date theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge as it emerges in the new frontier discipline—cultural psychology. Cultural psychology is an interdisciplinary synthesis of developmental and social psychology with cultural anthropology and educational sciences.

The series is an example of integrated global knowledge. The knowledge base of contemporary social sciences is increasingly international—while its applications in the areas of education and other social practices remain largely specific to particular countries. This series creates an international forum for communicating key ideas of methodology, different approaches to family, relationships, and schooling, and social negotiations of issues of human development.  New perspectives—dynamic systems theory, dialogical perspectives on the development of the self, the role of various symbolic resources in human development, and other new topics of interdisciplinary kind figure prominently in this book series. 

The aim is to generate an internationally visible knowledge base on cultural psychology based on books (monographs, edited volumes) that represents the best of new scholarship in the field. The different books in the series are unified by introducing in each case a short Series Editor’s Preface that links together relevant new ideas across the books published.